American Rust

awwww poor boook. i am only feeling three stars here but i am giving it four because the other reviews are so unfair. (not the one that says there has been no good fiction published this century - that one is so much laughable curmudgeonly elitist bullshit i can't even acknowledge it) but it's not a......more

Isaac und Billy sind gute Freunde. Isaac lebt zusammen mit seinem pflegebedürftigem Vater, und Billy wohnt mit seiner Mutter gemeinsam in einem Trailer. Seit das Stahlwerk geschlossen ist, baut die Stadt selbst auch immer mehr ab; Zukunftsaussichten gibt es kaum. Daher möchte Isaac auch weg. Er will......more

American Rust Leaves other books in the dust. I could go on at length about its big themes, its forays into stream of consciousness, its acute peeling back of the disintegration of the rustbelt economy and what unfettered capitalism looks like, its compelling portrait of crabbed lives and blighted fam......more

I have been living in Pittsburgh for over seven years and in that time I have often visited the Mon River Valley south of the city of champions. Towns such as Monessen, Donora, New Eagle, Brownsville, Bell Vernon and others make up the Mon River Valley, They are towns nestled between the muddy brow......more

Philipp Meyer’s American Rust is one of the finest first novels I’ve read in the last several years, and a novel that many writers(regardless of their experience) would give their eye teeth or left nut to have written. The novel follows the odd couple of Billy Poe and Isaac English from an act of br......more