American Rust

Blurb

American Rust is American writer Philipp Meyer's debut novel published in 2009. Set in the present-day 2000s, American Rust takes place in the fictional town of Buell in Fayette County, Pennsylvania which is in a rural region referred to as "the Valley" of dilapidated steel towns. American Rust focuses on the decline of the American middle class, good-paying manufacturing jobs, and the general sense of economic and social malaise of what has become known as the New Gilded Age. Meyer's novel received rave reviews from book critics; many publications ranked it one of the best novels of 2009.
American Rust was published in 2009 in the United States, Great Britain, Australia, and The Netherlands; in 2010 it was published in France, Germany, Italy, Korea, Israel, Greece, and Serbia.