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Lori
Jan 26, 2011 rated it really liked it
Shelves: fiction, rust-belt
American Rust, by an amazing young talent named Philipp Meyer, earns 4 stars only because it is the author's first novel and I am leaving room. I am 'this close' to just giving into my true feelings and laying on that fifth one. This is a writer I will follow with high hopes.

I am a life long inhabitant of the former northern industrial corridor. We used to rule the world in production...manufacturing...the power house that made our society function. It was not all Horatio Alger clap trap to be c
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Caleb Stright
Nov 20, 2009 rated it it was amazing