Summary
As the story begins, unlikely best friends Isaac English and Billy Poe are watching spring come to the valley yet again, two years out of high school with no jobs and no prospects. Introspective, brainy Isaac decides it's time to get the education his sister used as an escape route and sets off on a picaresque cross-country jaunt to Berkeley. Poe, who's skated just about as far as he can on the glory of his football days, comes along.
Poe's a big guy and a perennial fuckup with a history of violence. Isaac is a small, slight intellectual. While both can be placed at the scene, everyone knows Poe did it. Poe, with a history of saving Isaac's hide, goes to jail and doesn't give up his friend.Harris, the cop who arrested Poe (and not for the first time) commits a shocking crime to save Poe, but only out of pity - or love, he's not sure - for his mother. She'll never know the gravity of his act, rendered ultimately completely pointless by the sudden return of Isaac.See the full content of this document
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Lost Dreams
BOOK REVIEW
Lost DreamsPhilipp Meyer's debut novel, American Rust (Spiegel & Grau), feels intimately familiar, and not just to readers in Western Penn...See the full content of this document
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