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American Son by Brian Ascalon Roley (2001, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherNorton & Company, Incorporated, w. w.
ISBN-100393321541
ISBN-139780393321548
eBay Product ID (ePID)1878043
Product Key Features
Book TitleAmerican Son
Number of Pages256 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicSagas, Family Life, Literary, Asian American
Publication Year2001
GenreFiction
AuthorBrian Ascalon Roley
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight8.2 Oz
Item Length8.3 in
Item Width5.5 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN00-053307
ReviewsRoley is one young writer with something important to say: he has fused a coming-of-age story with a variant on the American immigrant saga, and the result is both explosive and illuminating., Roley is one young writer with something important to say: he has fused a coming-of-age story with a variant on the American immigrant saga, and the result is both explosive and illuminating. -- Jonathan Kirsch (Los Angeles Times Book Review) Heartbreaking…American Son is a gripping book. -- Aleksandar Hemon (New York Times) Hard-hitting and brash, this debut novel takes a cold, clear-eyed look at the American immigrant experience…This is a powerhouse story of vulnerable strangers living in a brutal, alien land told with stylish restraint, bare-knuckled realism and tender yet tough clarity. -- Publishers Weekly, Hard-hitting and brash, this debut novel takes a cold, clear-eyed look at the American immigrant experience...This is a powerhouse story of vulnerable strangers living in a brutal, alien land told with stylish restraint, bare-knuckled realism and tender yet tough clarity.
SynopsisTold with a hard-edged purity that brings to mind Cormac McCarthy and Denis Johnson, American Son is the story of two Filipino brothers adrift in contemporary California. The older brother, Tomas, fashions himself into a Mexican gangster and breeds pricey attack dogs, which he trains in German and sells to Hollywood celebrities. The narrator is younger brother Gabe, who tries to avoid the tar pit of Tomas's waywardness, yet moves ever closer to embracing it. Their mother, who moved to America to escape the caste system of Manila and is now divorced from their American father, struggles to keep her sons in line while working two dead-end jobs. When Gabe runs away, he brings shame and unforeseen consequences to the family. Full of the ache of being caught in a violent and alienating world, American Son is a debut novel that captures the underbelly of the modern immigrant experience. A Los Angeles Times Best Book, New York Times Notable Book, and a Kiriyama Pacific Rim Prize Finalist, A powerful novel about ethnically fluid California, and the corrosive relationship between two Filipino brothers.
LC Classification NumberPS3568.O5333A84 2001
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