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1997 Nominated

The American Standard

Sam Desanto

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ABOUT
THE BOOK

Jack loses his job and his trailer home within a single day, and takes off with his wife on an odyssey across the Texan desert to California, where the television show The Dream Machine offers untold riches. An indictment of the American dream, the novel tells how Sam becomes embroiled in corruption and eventually ends up fighting to stay alive.

Sam Desanto

ABOUT
THE AUTHOR Sam
Desanto

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ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

Country
Kenya
Author
Sam Desanto
Publisher
E. African Educ. Publrs. Ltd./Spear
Nominating Library
Nairobi - Kenya

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