01506cam a2200277 4500 417776174 TxGeo 20200218120000.0 090513s2010||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 9780385527521 trade pbk. 0385527527 trade pbk. (OCoLC)326529128 TxGeo Meyer, Philipp, 1974- American rust / Philipp Meyer. Spiegel & Grau trade pbk. ed. New York, NY : Spiegel & Grau, 2010. 382 pages ; 21 cm. Includes "A reader's guide.". Set in a beautiful but economically devastated Pennsylvania steel town, a lush landscape as deceptively promising as the edifices of the abandoned steel mills, "American Rust" is a novel of the lost American dream and the desperation that arises in its absence. Left alone to care for his aging father after his mother commits suicide and his sister escapes to Yale, Isaac English longs for a life beyond his hometown. But when he finally sets out to leave for good, accompanied by his temperamental best friend, former high school football star Billy Poe, they are caught up in a terrible act of violence that changes their lives forever--Provided by publisher. 20200227. Murder Fiction. Fayette County (Pa) Fiction. Psychological fiction. QS5