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Author Campbell, Bonnie Jo, 1962-

Title American salvage : stories / by Bonnie Jo Campbell
Published Detroit, Mich. : Wayne State University Press, ©2010

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Description 1 online resource (170 pages)
Series Made in Michigan writers series
Made in Michigan writers series.
Contents Trespasser -- Yard man -- World of gas -- Inventor, 1972 -- Solutions to Brian's problem -- Burn -- Family reunion -- Winter life -- Bringing Belle home -- Falling -- King Cole's American salvage -- Storm warning -- Fuel for the millennium -- Boar taint -- Acknowledgments
Summary 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. --From the publisher
Notes National Book Award Finalist, Fiction, 2009
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Subject Working class -- United States -- Fiction
FICTION -- General.
Manners and customs
Working class
SUBJECT United States -- Social life and customs -- Fiction
Subject United States
Genre/Form Fiction
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780814334911
0814334911