- Drug addicts, Bank robberies, Iraq War, 2003-2011, Identity (Psychology)
The unnamed narrator, a young man from Cleveland, drops out of college and enlists in the United States Army as a medic during the Iraq War. Suffering from PTSD, the narrator starts self-medicating with opiates while deployed and continues once back home.
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Grave, earnest, classical in form and contemporary.
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- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
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About the book
- Author
- Nico Walker
- First published
- 2018
- Pages
- 336
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, London : Jonathan Cape, Darkside Books
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- English, Portuguese
- ISBN
- 9786555980813
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