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Horizontal Rust
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Publisher Price: $16.00
ISBN13: 9781736499108
Publisher: Shining Life
Published: Apr 9 2021
Pages: 182
Weight: 0.45
Height: 0.42 Width: 5.00 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
It's 2013 and a jobless Graham Mercy has just returned home to Wilkes-Barre, PA, after graduating from Columbia University. With his country still mired in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis, and with nothing better to do, Graham sets out to fulfill a family obligation by attending the weekend-long convention of a failing regional life-insurance co-op. Expecting nothing but tedium and a $600 stipend, Graham instead gets a surprise job offer he can neither accept nor decline, develops a sudden infatuation he can neither pursue nor ignore, and unwittingly enters into an absurd power struggle that could render him a pariah within his own family and ancestral community. Horizontal Rust, the debut novel by Ned Russin of the bands Title Fight and Glitterer, is a story about trying to understand boredom, abstract expressionism, family, personal narratives, and Wilkes-Barre.
[Horizontal Rust's] offbeat realism offers readers much to consider. - Kirkus Reviews
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