War of the Encyclopaedists

ISBN-13: 9780241146798 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 448 str.

Christopher Robinson; Gavin Kovite

Opis

A hilarious and heartbreaking coming-of-age tale - big, bold, American fiction about love, friendship and the Iraq War. Mickey Montauk and Halifax Corderoy are the Encyclopaedists. Held together by: a common sense of humour, Seattle, a handful of wild nights, a nonsensical shared Wikipedia page. Pushed apart by: Boston versus Baghdad, the Iraq War, a shared girl.

Recenzje

Publisher's description. Hilarious and heartbreaking, a coming-of-age tale for modern America. Mickey and Halifax are best friends: held together by a sense of humour, shared memories, world-class parties, but pushed apart by looming adulthood, the Iraq War and girls. After high school, thrust into new lives worlds apart, they must decide what friendship and happiness really mean. Penguin

O autorze

Christopher Robinson
Chris Robinson, a Boston University and Hunter College MFA graduate, is a MacDowell Colony Fellow and a Yale Younger Poets Prize finalist. His writing has appeared in the Kenyon Review, McSweeney's and elsewhere.

Gavin Kovite
Gavin Kovite was an infantry platoon leader in Baghdad from 2004-2005. He attended NYU Law and is now an Army prosecutor. His writing has appeared in literary magazines and is published in Fire and Forget.