EAN: 9781471133701

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NOW A MAJOR TV SERIES STARRING JEFF DANIELS AND MAURA TIERNEY   An American voice reminiscent
of Steinbeck – a debut novel on friendship  loyalty  and love  centering on a murder in a dying
Pennsylvania steel town  from the bestselling author of THE SON.    Isaac is the smartest kid
in town  left behind to care for his sick father after his mother dies by suicide and his
sister Lee moves away. Now Isaac wants out too. Not even his best friend  Billy Poe   can stand
in his way: broad-shouldered Billy  always ready for a fight  still living in his mother' s
trailer. Then  on the very day of Isaac' s leaving  something happens that changes the
friends'  fates and tests the loyalties of their friendship and those of their lovers 
families  and the town itself.   Evoking John Steinbeck' s novels of restless lives during
the Great Depression  American Rust is an extraordinarily moving novel about the bleak
realities that battle our desire for transcendence  and the power of love and friendship to
redeem us.   ' A startlingly mature and impressive debut'  KATE ATKINSON   ' Darkly
disturbing and darkly compelling'  PATRICIA CORNWELL   ' Written with considerable
dramatic intensity and pace'  COLM TÓIBÍN   ' A masterpiece. The best book to come out of
America since The Road'  CHRIS CLEAVE

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