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Philipp Meyer
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January 01, 1974
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Joyce, Faulkner, Virginia Woolf, Hemingway, Eudora Welty, James Kelman
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American Rust
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The Son
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Der Einfluss Der Asienkrise 1997 / 1998 Auf Die Entwicklung Der Demokratisierung in S Dostasien, Am Fallbeispiel Indonesien.
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Un Arrière Goût De Rouille: Roman
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New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, 2007
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The United States of McSweeney's: Ten Years of Lucky Mistakes and Accidental Classics
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| As is the case with most collections, there's a lot of variety in this one, differences in tone from comic to the tragic. The good stories are masterful, especially "By the Burn." One of my all time favorites. | |
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| Kelman is one of the most important prose and narrative stylists of the last 50 years and is maybe the biggest innovator in stream of conscious narrative since Joyce. Highly recommend. Another good one to start with is his short story collection "Bus...more | |
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| My favorite of Toibin's books thus far. Great view into the mind and life of Henry James as well as being stylistically brilliant. | |
“It was like this all up and down the river and many of the young people, the way they accepted their lack of prospects, it was like watching sparks die in the night...He didn't see how the country could survive like this in the long run; a stable society required stable jobs, there wasn't anything more to it than that. ”
― Philipp Meyer, American Rust
― Philipp Meyer, American Rust
“You ought to be able to grow up in a place and not have to get the hell out of it when you turn eighteen.”
― Philipp Meyer, American Rust
― Philipp Meyer, American Rust
“And then...it wasn't just that we lost all those jobs, it was that people didn't have anything to be good at anymore. There's only so good you can be about pushing a mop or emptying a bedpan. We're trending backwards as a nation, probably for the first time in history, and it's not the kids with the green hair and bones through their noses. Personally I don't care for it, but those things are inevitable. The real problem is the average citizen does not have a job he can be good at. You lose that, you lose the country.”
― Philipp Meyer, American Rust
― Philipp Meyer, American Rust
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Hi Philipp, thanks for accepting my friend invite.Congratulations on having your book picked by Amazon for the 'rising stars' list! I saw the announcement on the fiction forum there. In fact I thought your book was the most interesting on the list - I made a comment on the forum about it! The book is on my 'to read' list.
Maria
