American Salvage

American 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. Thro...

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Main Author: Campbell, Bonnie Jo, 1962-
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : W. W. Norton & Company , 2009.
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Summary:American 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.--Amazon.com.
Physical Description:170 p.
ISBN:9780393339192
039333919X
Author Notes:Bonnie Jo Campbell is the author of seven works of fiction, including The Waters , a national bestseller, and American Salvage , finalist for the National Book Award and the National Book Critics Circle Award. The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, she lives outside Kalamazoo, Michigan, with her husband and donkeys.