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Descripción Softcover. Condición: new. Reprint. Product DescriptionA captivating comingofage novel that is by turns funny and sad and elegiac Michiko Kakutani The New York Times about two best friends as their postgrad lives divergeone into liberal academia the other into the American military occupation of IraqOn a summer night in 2004 prepping for another blowout party in the arty Seattle enclave of Capitol Hill Mickey Montauk has just learned that he wont be joining his best friend Halifax Corderoy for grad school in Boston Global events have intervened and Mickeys National Guard unit will soon deploy to Baghdad But before he can make this stunning revelation events spiral beyond their control In the blearyeyed dawn Mickey and Hal glimpse their radically altered future the start of a year that will transform them allMonths later Mickey struggles to lead his platoon safely through an increasingly violent and confusing war In Boston Hal finds himself unable to play the game of intellectual oneupmanship with the ease of his new classmates When Hals new roommate Tricia and exgirlfriend Mani come between the best friends Hal and Mickey find that cool irony and youthful selfregard cannot insulate them from the damages of love and conflict and the messiness of living As Mickey and Hals lives move further away from their shared dream they keep in touch by editing a Wikipedia article about themselves absurd and hilarious updates that morph and deepen throughout the year culminating in a document that is both devastatingly tragic and profoundly poeticOne of the most revealing novels yet about the millennial generation Esquire War of the Encyclopaedists beats with the energetic pulse of idealistic youth on the threshold of adult reality It is the vital urgent and utterly absorbing lament of searching for meaning and hope in a fractured world A love story a war story and also a generational one about coming of age in the time of Wikipedia and YouTubedarkly funny and absurd and terrifying at the same time The Wall Street JournalReviewMr Robinson and Mr Kovite havewritten a captivating comingofage novel that is by turns funny and sad and elegiac a novel that leaves us with some revealing snapshots of America both at war and in denial and some telling portraits of a couple of millennials trying to grope their way toward adulthood Michiko Kakutani New York TimesOne of the most revealing novels yet about the millennial generationRecent war fictionlike Kevin Powerss The Yellow Birds Phil Klays Redeployment and Ben Fountains Billy Lynns Long Halftime Walkhas accounted for the battleground overseas and at home but none has focused so incisively on the choice between serving and shopping Getting drunk at brunch and releasing your guns safety Montauk and Corderoy keep in touch by editing a Wikipedia entry about themselves What starts off as a fun absurd exercise grows more poetic and deadly seriousThe millennials have gotten a bad reputation for a bewildering sense of selfregard and privilege their dreams encouraged by their protective parents and discouraged by the recession And this might be their defining novelwhat feels like a human encyclopedia its opposing entries revealing characters and acountry in a confused state of revision following a nonsensical war Benjamin Percy EsquireThe book is a love story a war story and also a generational one about coming of age in the time of Wikipedia and YouTube darkly funny and absurd and terrifying at the same time Wall Street JournalOnly a poet and a soldierlike these collaborating authorsare mad enough or ambitious enough to conceive of this smart wise and wiseassed first novel Seattle hipsterville to Baghdad Cambridge theory nerds and Army grunts this book has sweep and heart and humor It captures coming of age during foreign wars and domestic malaise and it does so with electrifying insight Mar. Nº de ref. del artículo: DADAX1476775435
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