Good American

Name: Good American
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ISBN: 9780425253175

ISBN-10: 0425253171

ISBN-13: 9780425253175

Edition: N/A

Authors: Alex George

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Everything he’d seen had been unimaginably different from the dry, dour streets of home, and to his surprise he was not sorry in the slightest. He was smitten by the beguiling otherness of it all. And so began my grandfather’s rapturous love affair with America—an affair that would continue until the day he died. This is the story of the Meisenheimer family, told by James, a third-generation American living in Beatrice, Missouri. It’s where his German grandparents—Frederick and Jette—found themselves after journeying across the turbulent Atlantic, fording the flood-swollen Mississippi, and being brought to a sudden halt by the broken water of the pregnant Jette. A Good Americantells of…

Book details

List price: $17.00
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
Publication date: 2/5/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 448
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.30" long x 0.95" tall
Weight: 0.814
Language: English

Alex George was born in 1970. After studying law at Oxford University, he qualified as a solicitor and has worked as a lawyer in Paris and London. He is also a semi-professional saxophone player and restaurant reviewer, and has recently co-written a book of bar reviews. 'Working It Out' was his first novel.