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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 up cycled or hydro or vegan, they\`ll make you an ad. Behind the scenes, though, Jim supports the old captains of American industry; bleach, beer, guns.
But all is not well: Jim\`s wife, Denise, is in a coma induced by a drug Jim helped promote. A live-in nurse and former Salvadorian gang member helps him care for her. And Jim\`s only child, Connor, has been sent to a boarding school three thousand miles away after assaulting another student.
Orphaned at 14, Jim and his three closest friends grew up at Mr Hand\`s Home for Well-Behaved Boys. All have profited from the American Dream. In 2008, on the brink of the Presidential election, the quartet find themselves short on cash and look to Jim for a solution. The scheme he devises brings together a Death Row inmate, pay-per-view television, and most of America\`s major corporations. Everything is set for it to be his greatest achievement yet.
American Weather is a remorselessly funny and savage take-down of modern America by an abundantly talented new writer.ISBN - 9780099542223
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Pages : 288
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