Showing American Salvage by Bonnie Jo Campbell

Paperback. Pub Date: 2010 03 of Pages: 170 in Publisher: WW Norton & Co. American Salvage is rich with local color and peopledthe with rural characters who love and hate extravagantly They not 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.