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American Rust : ウィキペディア英語版 | American Rust
''American Rust'' is American writer Philipp Meyer's debut novel published in 2009. Set in the present-day 2000s (decade), American Rust takes place in the fictional town of Buell in Fayette County, Pennsylvania which is in a rural region referred to as "the Valley" of dilapidated steel towns. ''American Rust'' focuses on the decline of the American middle class, good-paying manufacturing jobs, and the general sense of economic and social malaise of what has become known as the New Gilded Age. Meyer's novel received rave reviews from book critics; many publications ranked it one of the best novels of 2009. ''American Rust'' was published in 2009 in the United States, Great Britain, Australia, and The Netherlands (in Dutch); in 2010 it was published (in translation) in France, Germany, Italy, Korea, Israel, Greece, and Serbia. ==Writing style== The structure of ''American Rust'' is that of a third person, stream-of-consciousness work influenced, according to Meyer,〔ABC Radio National "Off the Shelf" June 16, 2009〕 by writers such as James Joyce, William Faulkner, Virginia Woolf, and James Kelman. Comparisons to other books vary somewhat, but mostly include works by modernist writers. The ''Baltimore Sun'' compared the novel to the works of Faulkner. Roger Perkins of the UK Telegraph, Michiko Kakutani of The New York Times, and Ron Charles of ''The Washington Post'' compared it to the works of Cormac McCarthy, Ernest Hemingway, John Steinbeck, and J.D. Salinger. Geordie Williamson, head literary critic of The Australian, compared Meyer to Steinbeck in a radio interview, saying "John Steinbeck is alive and well, and his name is Philipp Meyer." 〔ABC radio interview, Deborah Cameron with Geordie Williamson, April 2009〕 Williamson also compared Meyer to Sinclair Lewis and Nathaniel Hawthorne in his printed review of American Rust in The Australian.
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