At dawn
By: Jobie Hughes
Publisher: Soft Skull Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Berkeley, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 329
ISBN-13: 9781593764494
Subjects: Self-realization; Roman; Life change events; Young men; Amerikanisches Englisch; Fiction
Description: Caught in a riptide of haphazard underemployment, at turns violent and unpredictable and with no family or friends to speak of, Stratton Brown longs for the chance to escape his small-town past and build a new life. He sets out for Chicago, where he meets a new and fresh hell: a nine-to-fiver in a nondescript, meaningless company while falling headlong into an obsessive love affair with a woman he believes may be a bit too attached to her abusive ex-boyfriend. Is this all America has to offer its twentysomethings? He'll soon have to figure out that, beneath the gruff labor of building a new life, lies the presence of something much more true: a way past his violent childhood and a new path to the American dream.