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008			211121s2018 nyu e 000 f eng d
020			_a9780593315484 _cRM79.95 _qpaperback
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082	0	4	_223 _a813.6
090	0	0	_a813.6 _bWAL _dG
100	1		_aWalker, Nico, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aCHERRY / _cNICO WALKER
250			_aFirst edition
264		1	_aNew York : _bAlfred A. Knopf, _c2018
300			_a317 pages ; _c20 cm
336			_2rdacontent _atext
337			_2rdamedia _aunmediated
338			_2rdacarrier _avolume
520			_a"Jesus' Son meets Reservoir Dogs in a breakneck-paced debut novel about love, war, bank robberies, and heroin. Cleveland, 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 typewriter, Cherry marks the arrival of a raw, bleakly hilarious, and surprisingly poignant voice straight from the dark heart of America"--Provided by publisher.
650	1	0	_aVeterans _vFiction
650	2	0	_aIraq War, 2003-2011 _vFiction
650	2	0	_aDrug addicts _vFiction
650	2	0	_aOpioid abuse _vFiction
655	7		_aLove stories
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