American Salvage (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780393339192)

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.

Author: Bonnie Jo Campbell
ISBN-10: 039333919X
ISBN-13: 9780393339192
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English
Published: 12/01/2009
Pages: 192
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.18h x 6.62w x 0.49d
Award: National Book Critics Circle Award - Finalist
Award: Michigan Notable Books - Winner
Award: IndieFab awards - Gold Medal Winner

Review Citation(s):
Booklist Editors Choice/Adult 01/01/2010 pg. 8
New York Times Book Review 01/03/2010 pg. 20