Reading this exceptional novel — first novel I’ve read in a long time that I felt the need to go buy a hardback copy upon completion — while I’m reading Guion McKee’s book, The Problem of Jobs, a survey of Philadelphia industrial policy in the 1960s and 1970s. <\/p>\n
This exchange on page 274 of American Rust: <\/p>\n
“Company looking after you?
\n“Yep. Got us on this profit-sharing plan, stock’s up a hundred percent. we just hired Benny Garnic’s son, matter of fact.”
\n“Thought he was a computer programmer.”
\n“Shipped his job off to India,” said Riley. “Kid goes to school so he wouldn’t get laid off like his dad did, but then…”<\/p>\n
“It does make you feel better about things,” said Frank, ” in a purely cynical way. Those kinds of people didn’t have much sympathy for us twenty years ago, I can remember it was asshole after asshole going on TV and saying it was our faults for not going to college.”<\/em> <\/p>\n “Benny Garnic’s son probably doesn’t feel better.” Reading this exceptional novel — first novel I’ve read in a long time that I felt the need to go buy a hardback copy upon completion — while I’m reading Guion McKee’s book, The Problem of Jobs, a survey of Philadelphia industrial policy in the 1960s and 1970s. This exchange on page 274 of American … Continue reading American Rust<\/span>
\n“I got him started at nineteen-sixty and hour,” said Frank. “He won’t lose his house the way we all did.” <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"