
An American voice reminiscent of Steinbeck
- a debut novel on friendship loyalty & love centering on a murder in a dying Pennsylvania steel town from the bestselling author of THE SON now a major TV series Isaac is the smartest kid in town left behind to care for his sick father after his mothercommitssuicide & 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 & tests the loyalties of their friendship & those of their lovers families & 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 transcendance & the power of love & friendship to redeem us 'A startlingly mature & impressive debut' KATE ATKINSON ' Darkly disturbing & darkly compelling' PATRICIA CORNWELL ' Written with considerable dramatic intensity & pace' Colm Toibin 'A masterpiece The best book to come out of America since The Road' CHRIS CLEAVE