American Weather by Charles Mcleod
Meet Jim Haskin. He's forty years old. He's worth around thirty-five million. He runs his own San Francisco ad firm, American Weather. AmWe's image is green and forward-looking: if your product is upcycled or hydro or vegan, they'll make you an ad. Behind the scenes, though, Jim supports the old captains of American industry; bleach, beer, guns. But all is not well: Jim's wife, Denise, is in a coma induced by a drug Jim helped promote. A live-in nurse and former Salvadorian gang member helps him care for her. And Jim's only child, Connor, has been sent to a boarding school three thousand miles away after assaulting another student. Orphaned at 14, Jim and his three closest friends grew up at Mr Hand's Home for Well-Behaved Boys. All have profited from the American Dream. In 2008, on the brink of the Presidential election, the quartet find themselves short on cash and look to Jim for a solution. The scheme he devises brings together a Death Row inmate, pay-per-view television, and most of America's major corporations. Everything is set for it to be his greatest achievement yet. American Weather is a remorselessly funny and savage take-down of modern America by an abundantly talented new writer.
Channelling Bret Easton Ellis from Less than Zero to Glamorama, McLeod has produced a strident satire on the American-dream-turned-nightmare.. The writing is sharp and clever... * The Guardian *
A solid debut by an author with a strong, original voice and sharp wit * Yorkshire Evening Post *
A solid debut by an author with a strong, original voice and sharp wit * Yorkshire Evening Post *
Charles McLeod's fiction has appeared in many publications. A Hoyns Fellow while at the University of Virginia, he has also received fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown; San Jose University, where he was a Steinbeck Fellow; and the Jentel Artist Residency Program. American Weather is his first novel.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781846553332 |
| ISBN 10 | 1846553334 |
| Title | American Weather |
| Author | Charles Mcleod |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2011-06-02 |
| Number of pages | 304 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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