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Cherry

3.48 ( 21,508 Ratings by Goodreads)
Cherry

Cherry

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3.48 (21,508 Ratings by Goodreads)
hardback | English
Published: 28 February, 2019
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Cleveland, Ohio, 2003. A young man is just a college freshman when he meets Emily. They share a passion for Edward Albee and ecstasy and fall hard and fast in love. But soon Emily has to move home to Elba, New York, and he flunks out of school and joins the army. Desperate to keep their relationship alive, they marry before he ships out to Iraq. But as an army medic, he is unprepared for the grisly reality that awaits him. His fellow soldiers smoke; they huff computer duster; they take painkillers; they watch porn. And many of them die. He and Emily try to make their long-distance marriage work, but when he returns from Iraq, his PTSD is profound, and the drugs on the street have changed. The opioid crisis is beginning to swallow up the Midwest. Soon he is hooked on heroin, and so is Emily. They attempt a normal life, but with their money drying up, he turns to the one thing he thinks he could be really good at - robbing banks. Hammered out on a prison typewriter, Cherry marks the arrival of a raw, bleakly hilarious, and surprisingly poignant voice straight from the dark heart of America.
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Type Book
ISBN13 9781787330948
ISBN10 178733094X
Number Of Pages 336
Item Weight 439 g
Product Dimensions 144 x 38 x 218 mm
Publisher / Reseller Jonathan Cape
Format hardback
Edition First Edition
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Cherry is a miracle of literary serendipity, a triumph... [Walker's] language, relentlessly profane but never angry, simmers at the level of morose disappointment, something like Holden Caulfield Goes to War... His prose echoes Ernest Hemingway's cadences to powerful effect... Cherry is written without an ounce of self-pity by an author allergic to the meretricious poetry of despair. In these propulsive pages, Walker draws us right into the mind of an ordinary young man beset by his own and his country's demons. In the end, his only weapon against disintegration is his own devastating candor. * Washington Post *
Walker's raw confessional novel, aptly compared to Jesus' Son and Reservoir Dogs, is a devastating example of art imitating life. * Esquire, The Best Books of 2018 (So Far) *
One of the summer's most exciting literary breakthroughs, Cherry is a profane, raw, and harrowingly timely account of the effects of war and the perils of addiction. * Entertainment Weekly *
After page one, only the faint-hearted will manage to put down this brilliant screech from a life of war, crime and addiction, a powerful book that declares the arrival of a real writer who has made art out of anguish. -- Thomas McGuane, author of Cloudbursts and Ninety-two in the Shade
Someone once said there are only two things worth writing about, love and death. Nico Walker may know more about these two subjects than 99.9% of fiction writers working today. Read Cherry instead of the latest piece of fluff - it might be the only time when you truly feel a writer is actually baring their soul to you. -- Donald Ray Pollock, author of The Heavenly Table

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Author's Bio

Nico Walker is originally from Cleveland. He served as a medic on more than 250 missions in Iraq. Currently he has two more years to serve of an eleven-year sentence for bank robbery. Cherry is his debut novel.

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