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American Weather [Paperback]

Charles McLeod
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2 Aug 2012

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.


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  • Paperback: 304 pages
  • Publisher: Vintage (2 Aug 2012)
  • Language: Unknown
  • ISBN-10: 0099542226
  • ISBN-13: 978-0099542223
  • Product Dimensions: 12.9 x 1.8 x 19.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (8 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,360,731 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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A strident satire on the American-dream-turned-nightmare... The writing is sharp and clever (Guardian )

Charles McLeod's writing is very special...crisp and rhythmical, sometimes almost poetic... Bright and sparky (William Leith Evening Standard )

A strong, original voice and sharp wit (Irish Examiner )

Raucous, so original... Stunningly good writing... Scorching humour (Eleanor Henderson, Author Of 'ten Thousand Saints' )

This is a wonderfully wicked book that has the potential to impress or offend, depending on your sensibilities. It's like nothing else I've read this year, and Jim is such a hideously lovable rogue that even with all his bad behaviour, I couldn't help but think he'd be a great person to have in your circle of friends (Bookbag )

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A remorselessly funny and savage take-down of modern America by an abundantly talented new writer.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Meet Jim Haskin, a hard loving loser 3 July 2011
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Jim Haskin is, in Richard Fairina's words, a hard loving loser. He's in advertising, selling pretty images to the American Public. Yet although he looks great his life is a mess; his wife Denise is in a coma and son Connor shipped off to boarding school. And there's the stock market crash looming, making Jim do things that aren't so pretty. A violent beautiful debut.
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5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars Takes No Prisoners 14 Jun 2011
By Adriel
Format:Paperback
Charles McLeod's first novel can be described in one phrase, beautifully horrific.
Jim Haskin represents and tears down the corporate facade of a progressively green American Dream in a way that's truly magnetic. The fantastic writing shows the United States as a gorgeous, heartless, capitalist safari where anyone can be predator or prey. Any reader of American Weather will have a difficult time putting the book down. A shark hunting sharks, Haskin is among the most ruthless protagonists I've ever read, scarring other characters (and the reader) in ways different than the now cookie-cutter gratuitous violence. McLeod succeeds in all of these things while conveying a truly terrifying message: there's a little bit of Jim Haskin in all of us. This book is a must buy!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Consumerism with its Clothes Off 9 Jun 2011
By David
Format:Paperback
The protagonist here is an advertising man. He's got family issues and lots and lots of money. He does bad things in interesting ways.

American Weather is satire that couldn't make any more clear the conflict between profit-motive and true human empathy. McLeod explores the empty and superficial environmentalism that gets pushed to the top in the consumerist West and he lays bare hypocrisy after hypocrisy. This is three hundred pages of professional ruthlessness set against a backdrop of personal isolation--with these second bits being the sort of thing where you get emotional. The scenes that focus on celebrity culture are funny and there are sentences throughout that are absolutely golden.
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