America America
Ethan Canin
(Author)
21,000+ Reviews
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Description
In the early 1970s, Corey Sifter, the son of working-class parents, becomes a yard boy on the grand estate of the powerful Metarey family. Soon, through the family's generosity, he is a student at a private boarding school and an aide to the great New York senator Henry Bonwiller, who is running for president. Before long, Corey finds himself involved with one of the Metarey daughters as well, and he begins to leave behind the world of his upbringing. As the Bonwiller campaign gains momentum, Corey finds himself caught up in a complex web of events in which loyalty, politics, sex, and gratitude conflict with morality, love, and the truth. Ethan Canin's stunning novel is about America as it was and is, a remarkable exploration of how vanity, greatness, and tragedy combine to change history and fate.
Product Details
Price
$16.00
$14.88
Publisher
Random House Trade
Publish Date
May 19, 2009
Pages
496
Dimensions
5.36 X 8.02 X 1.03 inches | 0.79 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780812979893
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About the Author
Ethan Canin is the author of six books, including the story collections Emperor of the Air and The Palace Thief and the novels For Kings and Planets and Carry Me Across the Water. He is on the faculty of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and divides his time between Iowa and northern Michigan. He is also a physician.
Reviews
"A story in which the audacity of hope confronts the tenacity of power . . . We've waited a long time for a worthy successor to Robert Penn Warren's All the King's Men and it couldn't have arrived at a more auspicious moment." --Washington Post Book World "[A] many-layered epic of class, politics, sex, death, and social history . . . Its reach is wide and its touch often masterly."--John Updike, The New Yorker
"An intoxicating big book-in both size and ambition. Thrilling . . . luminous."--Cleveland Plain Dealer
"A sprawling, captivating, timely work of art . . . Beautifully written, thoughtful, and imbuing all of its principal characters with dignity and understanding, America America is uncommon, ambitious and, like many of its characters, larger than life. . . . A novel that reminds us that fiction matters."--Houston Chronicle "Powerful and haunting, a major work."--Kirkus Reviews, starred review "A brilliant, serious book for serious readers." --San Diego Union-Tribune "Riveting and thought-provoking . . . [Canin] has unleashed all his considerable skills here, and it's our reward that America America turns out to be his best and most affecting work."--Miami Herald "The most mature and accomplished novelist of his generation."--National Public Radio
"An intoxicating big book-in both size and ambition. Thrilling . . . luminous."--Cleveland Plain Dealer
"A sprawling, captivating, timely work of art . . . Beautifully written, thoughtful, and imbuing all of its principal characters with dignity and understanding, America America is uncommon, ambitious and, like many of its characters, larger than life. . . . A novel that reminds us that fiction matters."--Houston Chronicle "Powerful and haunting, a major work."--Kirkus Reviews, starred review "A brilliant, serious book for serious readers." --San Diego Union-Tribune "Riveting and thought-provoking . . . [Canin] has unleashed all his considerable skills here, and it's our reward that America America turns out to be his best and most affecting work."--Miami Herald "The most mature and accomplished novelist of his generation."--National Public Radio
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