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

American Weather




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

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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