I really really wanted to like this book more than I did. Set in a dying rust belt town in Pennsylvania, the novel attempts a noble eulogy for blue collar America, and that in and of itself is admirable. But the whole book feels a couple of drafts away from final. The author utilizes a stream of ...
July book club read....I grew up about 60ish miles from this area, along the Ohio River. The topography IS stunning. The landscape IS heartbreakingly depressing . This book burrowed into my bones. The writing is not all proper grammar. It is written such that you are riding along inside the ch...
I read the Portuguese translation of this great book.You get used to the writing style.The context and the landscape portrays the industrial decline (and the beauty) of the steel cluster in some Pennsylvania towns but not only as it also portrays, for instance, the actual life in American jails. ...
It was plain that if we didn’t leave Kansas we would all end up either shot or hanged; Flying Jacket and the remaining Cherokees decided to absquatulate west to the Rockies. The five RMN men—Busque, Showalter, Fisk, Shaw, and me—decided to go with them. The last we’d heard was Sherman had taken G...