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Narrado por:
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Tom Stechschulte
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Philipp Meyer
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.
Evoking John Steinbeck's novels of restless lives during the Great Depression, American Rust takes us into the contemporary American heartland at a moment of profound unrest and uncertainty about the future. It is a dark but lucid vision, a moving novel about the bleak realities that battle our desire for transcendence and the power of love and friendship to redeem us.
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When Tom Stechschulte lures us with his steady voice into the blighted steel town of Buell, Pennsylvania, Isaac English is on his way out. On Isaac's last night in town, he and his best friend Billy Poe meet up in an abandoned steel mill for some drinks, some laughs 20-year-old guy stuff. But what happens to them that night will trap Poe in Buell and send Isaac on the run.
Philipp Meyer's American Rust is a commentary on post-industrial America. Meyer's spare, harsh prose recalls the machismo of Ernest Hemingway and exposes the wounded pride of the men in this story. Each chapter is narrated by a different character, and Stechschulte alters his steely, accent-less voice accordingly, but leaves room in each for a common vulnerability, a confessional tone, that keeps the listener interested.
One by one, Meyer presents the possibility for each character's success or happiness. Isaac scored a 1560 on his SATs. Poe received a football scholarship to college. Isaac's dad moves to Indiana for a better paying job. Poe's mom Grace and the sheriff Bud Harris just might make it as a couple. Isaac's sister Leigh made it to Yale.
And one by one, every single character's hopes are diminished, but not by any single devastating incident. Over a long period of time, through overexposure to harsh sunlight and cold, driving rain, we listen as this steel town rusts.
While rust serves in this novel primarily as a metaphor for the atrophy of American industrial society, the listener is also reminded that rust binds metals together. It is indeed the hope that Isaac and Poe have in each other through all the hardship that follows the night in the mill that makes American Rust well worth the listen. ;Sarah Evans Hogeboom
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modern american rural life
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Or perhaps it was because I recently listened to a different title by the same narrator and didn't care for it. Or maybe it's just that the plot hits one of my sore spots (financial instability, including being stupidly duped out of/thieved of your money), but it took me much longer to get through this book than it should have, even though it was actually well written and quite a good story. And kind of had a happy ending, albeit the unhappiest happy ending I think I've come across. Mostly a book about boys and I suspect it wouldn't pass the bechdel test but two women play important roles and I think they are well rounded characters and they have some interior monologues of their own.
If you're not sick of small town Pennsylvania
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Flat Ending
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Good Writing; Great Narration; But
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Lots of little twists and turns
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Long time to tell a very short story
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that this was considered a 'great American novel'. I came away 12 hours later entertained, but by no means blown away.
Cliched
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What did you love best about American Rust?
Gritty narrative, excellent depiction of cultural demise.What did you like best about this story?
The way relatively good people find themselves severely compromised.Which character – as performed by Tom Stechschulte – was your favorite?
Billy Poe.Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting?
No. Some passages were worth mulling over.Any additional comments?
A lot of passive verbs. Whatever, I don't write that well...Engaging and solid, start to finish
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Because your just out of hi school.
I time to grow up to make up your mind. Do I go to college, Do I stay home and help a a sick Dad. Do I take
A football scholarship. Two buddy's
roaming the land one more time before making up there minds.
A time to roam.
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Early on, one fear might be that the whole thing will be just too depressing to stick with. In a dying town in a region where a once great (if cruel) industrial civilization is collapsing (and returning to nature), two young men get themselves into grim trouble. There seems no hope for anyone involved, all of whom seem to be making one bad choice after another.
But the characters, the boys Issac and Billy Poe, Billy's mom Grace, Issac's sister Lee and most especially the sheriff Harris, quickly grow on the listener, and their stories become riveting and make the story well worth hanging with while it's power fully kicks in. What follows is more complex, more surprising and more satisfying than you might expect from the early going.
Some synopses of this novel suggest that there is some heart warming 'us against the world' friendship binding the two mismatched main characters. The reality is far less rosy/cliched but ultimately more believable.
This novel offers a deep and rewarding look at harsh changes in the fortunes of a part of America, propelled by excellent story telling and finely rendered, very real characters. Highly recommended.
The narrator is very good; he reminds me of the superlative Ron McLarty.
Fighting for survival in hard times
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