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America America (Hardcover)

By: Ethan Canin (Author)

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"The rhythms of a great estate, and the dynamics of a landowning family, are captured with Tolstoyan exactitude....[P]owerful and haunting, a major work." (starred review)

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The son of working-class parents, Corey Sifter is befriended by the wealthy Metarey family, a politically powerful dynasty in New York, and becomes an aide to New York senator Henry Bonwiller as he runs for the Democratic presidential nomination during the Nixon era, until a crime is committed and Corey is forced to reconcile his role in the complex drama. 100,000 first printing.

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Ethan Canin follows up his bestselling CARRY ME ACROSS THE WATER (2001) with an epic tale of the American dream, and the crimes committed in the name of power. Corey Sifter, the Scottish son of a plumber, comes under the tutelage of Liam Metarey, a coal baron. Through Liam's good graces, Corey moves up in the world, becomes a prominent newspaperman, and even marries into the moneyed Metarey family. When Liam begins to back a liberal U.S. senator for president, Corey becomes involved, and helps stave off a scandal when a young woman associated with the Senator is found drunk and frozen in a snow bank. Strains of ALL THE KING'S MEN and even THE GREAT GATSBY can be found in this powerful tale of loyalty, pride, and the sins of success.

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