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American Salvage

By Bonnie Jo Campbell

Book information

Publisher
Wayne State University Press
Year
2009
ISBN
0814334121, 9780814334126
LCC
PS3553.A43956 A8 2009
Google Books ID
hnnc7u5yq8MC
Open Library ID
OL22691599M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
809 kB (828376 bytes)
Edition
2nd
Pages
94\94
Scanned
no
Time added
2012-02-14 18:00:00

Description

Finalist for the 2009 National Book Award in Fiction; finalist for the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction. “These short stories approach their subjects from an array of perspectives, but what they share is freshness, surprise, and a compulsion to plumb some absolute extremes of American existence.”—National Book Award citationAmerican Salvage is rich with local color and peopled with rural characters who love and hate extravagantly. They know how to fix cars and washing machines, how to shoot and clean game, and how to cook up methamphetamine, but they have not figured out how to prosper in the twenty-first century. Through the complex inner lives of working-class characters, Bonnie Jo Campbell illustrates the desperation of post-industrial America, where wildlife, jobs, and whole ways of life go extinct and the people have no choice but to live off what is left behind.

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