Reading
Ethan Canin
- When
Sunday July 13, 2008 (5pm)
- Where
- Books & Books - Coral Gables (265 Aragon Ave, 305.442.4408)
- Price
- FREE
- Details
- http://booksandbooks.com/NASApp/store/IndexJsp?s=storeevents&eventId=371191
- Critics say Ethan Canin's latest novel, America America, hearkens back to the work of Dreiser and Fitzgerald; we say there's always room on the shelf for another red-blooded American saga. A young man with working-class roots, taken under the wing of town tycoon Liam Metarey, is caught up in his patron's push to land a local politician in the White House. Then again, with Nixon as president and the country at war, there might be no better cause. But when the would-be president pulls a Chappaquiddick, all bets are off — or are they? – John Hood
