America America
Subtitle: a novel
By: Ethan Canin.
Edition: Trade pbk. ed.
Publisher: Random House Trade Paperbacks; Random House Publishing Group
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 475
ISBN-13: 9780812979893
Copyright date: 2008
Subjects: New York (State) -- Politics and government -- Fiction; Working class men -- Fiction; Rich people -- Fiction; Upper class women -- Fiction; Character -- Fiction; United States -- Politics and government -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction
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: Includes reading group guide.