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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, modern and forward-looking: if your product is upcycled or hydro or vegan, they'll make you an ad. But behind the scenes, Jim manufactures ways to support the old captains of American industry; bleach, beer and guns. But all is not well: Jim's wife, Denise, has been in a coma for over a year, a state brought on by a drug Jim helped promote. A live-in nurse, a former Salvadorian gang member, helps Jim tend to her. And Haskin's only child, Connor, has been sent away to a boarding school three thousand miles away, after assaulting a student at his former high school. 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 finds themselves short on cash and look to Jim for a solution. The scheme he devises involves 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.
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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)
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A solid debut by an author with a strong, original voice and sharp wit (Yorkshire Evening Post)
A remorselessly funny and savage take-down of modern America by an abundantly talented new writer.
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- PublisherHarvill Secker
- Publication date2011
- ISBN 10 1846553334
- ISBN 13 9781846553332
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages304
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Book Description Condition: Neu. Neu Neuware, Importqualität, Versand Büchersendung - Jim Haskin'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. But all is not well. Englisch. Seller Inventory # INF1000102506
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