American Weather
  • Published: 2 June 2011
  • ISBN: 9780753544495
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 304

American Weather

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2 Jun 2011
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1 Aug 2012
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A remorselessly funny and savage take-down of modern America by an abundantly talented new writer.

Meet Jim Haskin. He's forty years old. He's worth around thirty-five million. He runs his own San Francisco ad firm, American Weather. AmWe's image is green and forward-looking: if your product is upcycled, or hydro or vegan, they'll make you an ad. However, behind the scenes, Jim supports the old captains of American industry: bleach, beer, guns.

One day Jim is asked to come up with something extra-special. The scheme he devises brings together a Death Row inmate, pay-per-view television, and most of America's largest corporations.

Everything is set for it to be his greatest achievement yet.
  • Published: 2 June 2011
  • ISBN: 9780753544495
  • Imprint: Vintage Digital
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 304
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About the author

Charles McLeod

Charles McLeod's fiction has appeared in publications including Conjunctions, DOSSIER, Five Chapters, The Gettysburg Review, The Iowa Review, The Pushcart Prize: Best of the Small Presses, and on Salon. A Hoyns Fellow at the University of Virginia, he has also received fellowships from the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown and San Jose State University, where he was a Steinbeck Fellow.

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Praise for American Weather

A solid debut by an author with a strong, original voice and sharp wit

Yorkshire Evening Post

A strident satire on the American-dream-turned-nightmare... The writing is sharp and clever

Guardian

A strong, original voice and sharp wit

Irish Examiner

Charles McLeod’s writing is very special...crisp and rhythmical, sometimes almost poetic... Bright and sparky

William Leith, Evening Standard

Raucous, so original... Stunningly good writing... Scorching humour

Eleanor Henderson, author of 'Ten Thousand Saints'

This is a wonderfully wicked book that has the potential to impress or offend, depending on your sensibilities. It’s like nothing else I’ve read this year, and Jim is such a hideously lovable rogue that even with all his bad behaviour, I couldn’t help but think he’d be a great person to have in your circle of friends

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