- Paperback: 304 pages
- Publisher: Harvill Secker (2 Jun 2011)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1846553334
- ISBN-13: 978-1846553332
- Product Dimensions: 21.4 x 13.4 x 2.4 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.3 out of 5 stars See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 381,520 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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`A solid debut by an author with a strong, original voice and sharp wit' --Yorkshire Evening Post
"Channelling Bret Easton Ellis from Less than Zero to Glamorama, McLeod has produced a strident satire on the American-dream-turned-nightmare... The writing is sharp and clever..."
--The Guardian
"Channelling Bret Easton Ellis from Less than Zero to Glamorama, McLeod has produced a strident satire on the American-dream-turned-nightmare... The writing is sharp and clever..."
--The Guardian
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A remorselessly funny and savage take-down of modern America by an abundantly talented new writer.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
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.
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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!
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!
5 of 6 people found the following review helpful
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.
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.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
Great read
I enjoyed this book thoroughly. At times it made me cringe, but I kept reading. Which to me is the sign of a good book. Read more
Published 2 months ago by Matt
Awkward Writing Style
I was really looking forward to this book. But it left me wholly disappointed. At its core was a strange staccato style of writing that restricted any kind of flow. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Tino
Damn Good
I am not sure this is meant to be a satire. In many ways it is a realistic depiction of post-recession America. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Nick Taylor
Too cynical for me!
A while ago an article went round at work about how to spot a psychopath in your office and that they were often very successful in business. Jim Haskin reminds me of that. Read more
Published 11 months ago by Curiosity Killed The Bookworm
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