America America
By: Ethan Canin
Publisher: Bloomsbury
Published: 2009
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 458
ISBN-13: 9780747598725; 9780747598916
Copyright date: 2008
Subjects: Working class men; Fiction; Rich people; Upper class women; Politics and government
Description: In the early 1970s, Corey Sifter, the son of working-class parents, becomes a yard boy on the grand estate of the powerful Metarey family. Soon, through the family's generosity, he is a student at a private boarding school and an aide to the great New York senator Henry Bonwiller, who is running for president. Before long, Corey finds himself involved with one of the Metarey daughters as well, and he begins to leave behind the world of his upbringing. As the Bonwiller campaign gains momentum, Corey finds himself caught up in a complex web of events in which loyalty, politics, sex, and gratitude conflict with morality love, and the truth.
Notes: Originally published in Great Britain: 2008.