In the author's words "American Dreams was a radical experiment, because the whole idea was to let the stories erupt and evolve on their own. I would draw a word and then use that word in the most interesting sentence I could think of, and then create the next most interesting (and connected) sentence I could think of, and so on until the energy ran out. Much to my surprise, I wrote an entire chapter the first time I tried this technique. It was as if I had discovered a magic lamp. And that's the way it continued: a single word created each chapter. As I created more characters, I made a chart and assigned them numbers and then I rolled dice to decide which character would run into which other character. After all, in real life you're constantly running into new people. Who knows why?"
"A funny, stylistically innovative novel that includes everything a popular novel should have: romance, sex, adultery, crime, religion, sickness, death, and even Texas."
Publisher's Weekly
"The humorous turn of phrase is Bruce Price's most powerful weapon in American Dreams. His innovative turns of phrase prove as disturbing as they are entertaining. . . . There is a love of language evident on every page. Sentences are meant to be read over and over as you roll the words around and smile at the visual images that arise from the typeset page."
