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  American Salvage (Paperback) By (author) Bonnie Jo Campbell

  

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  Short Description for American SalvageFinalist for the 2009 National Book Award in Fiction; finalist for the 2009 National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction. These short stories approach their subjects from an array of perspectives, but what they share is freshness, surprise, and a compulsion to plumb some absolute extremes of American existence. National Book Award citation
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  • Publisher: WW Norton & Co
  • Published: 17 March 2010
  • Format: Paperback 170 pages
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  • Categories: Poetry & Drama | Short Stories
  • ISBN 13: 9780393339192 ISBN 10: 039333919X
  • Sales rank: 203,263

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• 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.