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Fiskadoro

1995-03-31 Fiction
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Release : 1995-03-31
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 095/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Fiskadoro by : Denis Johnson

Download or read book Fiskadoro written by Denis Johnson. This book was released on 1995-03-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hailed by the New York Times as "wildly ambitious" and "the sort of book that a young Herman Melville might have written had he lived today and studied such disparate works as the Bible, 'The Wasteland,' Fahrenheit 451, and Dog Soldiers, screened Star Wars and Apocalypse Now several times, dropped a lot of acid and listened to hours of Jimi Hendrix and the Rolling Stones," Fiskadoro is a stunning novel of an all-too-possible tomorrow. Deeply moving and provacative, Fiskadoro brilliantly presents the sweeping and heartbreaking tale of the survivors of a devastating nuclear war and their attempts to breaking tale of the survivors of a devastating nuclear war and their attempts to salvage remnants of the old world and rebuild their culture.

Tree of Smoke

2007-09-04 Fiction
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Release : 2007-09-04
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 127/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Tree of Smoke by : Denis Johnson

Download or read book Tree of Smoke written by Denis Johnson. This book was released on 2007-09-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Once upon a time there was a war . . . and a young American who thought of himself as the Quiet American and the Ugly American, and who wished to be neither, who wanted instead to be the Wise American, or the Good American, but who eventually came to witness himself as the Real American and finally as simply the Fucking American. That’s me. This is the story of Skip Sands—spy-in-training, engaged in Psychological Operations against the Vietcong—and the disasters that befall him thanks to his famous uncle, a war hero known in intelligence circles simply as the Colonel. This is also the story of the Houston brothers, Bill and James, young men who drift out of the Arizona desert into a war in which the line between disinformation and delusion has blurred away. In its vision of human folly, and its gritty, sympathetic portraits of men and women desperate for an end to their loneliness, whether in sex or death or by the grace of God, this is a story like nothing in our literature. Tree of Smoke is Denis Johnson’s first full-length novel in nine years, and his most gripping, beautiful, and powerful work to date. Tree of Smoke is the 2007 National Book Award Winner for Fiction.

The Nightmare Considered

1991 History
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Release : 1991
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 303/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Nightmare Considered by : Nancy Anisfield

Download or read book The Nightmare Considered written by Nancy Anisfield. This book was released on 1991. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These essays assess the nature of nuclear war literature from a variety of perspectives. Scholars, activists, novelists, poets, and teachers challenge nuclear ideologies and traditional readings of apocalyptic texts. Included: Holocaust literature of the 1950s, Michael Dorris and Louise Erdrich, poetry and nuclear war, Riddley Walker, Fiskadoro, haiku and Hiroshima, Kopit's End of the World, O'Brien's The Nuclear Age, and Vonnegut's cataclysmic novels.

Keyhole Factory

2012-11-01 Fiction
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Release : 2012-11-01
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 952/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Keyhole Factory by : William Gillespie

Download or read book Keyhole Factory written by William Gillespie. This book was released on 2012-11-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set in an alternate present that is a slightly, if dangerously, skewed version of our own, Keyhole Factory tracks the interwoven destinies of disparate characters up to and beyond the end of the world-as-we-know-it, brought on by a global super-virus. Beginning with a biting satire of an academic poetry conference, the novel moves on to encompass the stories of a poet-astronaut, a microbiologist contemplating an exit strategy from her high-level job designing biological weapons, a sports-car-driving killer who stages the aesthetic murders of utopian commune-dwellers, and a lone pirate radio disc jockey who may be the last person left alive broadcasting her story to nobody. Allowing form and content to shape each other, William Gillespie pries open the confusion in a moment of total crisis through a narrative web-work technique derived from deranged fiction pioneer Harry Stephen Keeler. Part imaginative free-for-all and part deeply felt examination of isolation and survival, the individual lives in Keyhole Factory shine through the chaos in all their beauty and tragedy. With his signature wit and originality, Gillespie spins a glittering fever-dream that questions our assumptions about the way we interpret events and our relation to the planet, without ever losing sight of the underlying experience of what it feels like to be a human being in the world we live in today.

Resuscitation of a Hanged Man

1991-03-05 Fiction
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Release : 1991-03-05
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 059/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Resuscitation of a Hanged Man by : Denis Johnson

Download or read book Resuscitation of a Hanged Man written by Denis Johnson. This book was released on 1991-03-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Resuscitation of a Hanged Man is Denis Johnson's most fully realized novel to date, an enthralling and shattering reading experience, which probes the mysteries of faith, hope and love.

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