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Articles of War

Articles of War

by NickArvin (Author)

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    Paperback 2006

    $7.83
Synopsis

George Tilson is an eighteen-year-old farm boy from Iowa. Enlisted in the army during WWII and arriving in Normandy just after D-Day, he is nicknamed Heck for his reluctance to swear. From summers of farm labour Heck is already strong. He knows how to except orders and how to work uncomplainingly. But in combat Heck witnesses a kind of brutality unlike anything he could have imagined. Fear consumes his every thought and Heck soon realises a terrible thing about himself: He is a coward. Possessed of this dark knowledge, Heck is then faced with an impossible task. Nick Arvin draws the reader into the unimaginable fear, violence and chaos of the war zone. Like the very best war fiction - Pat Barker's Regeneration trilogy, Sebastian Faulks' Birdsong - he shows how ordinary lives are transformed by extraordinary events.

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More Information

Format: Paperback
 Pages: 192
 Edition: New e.
 Publisher: Arrow
Published: 06 Jul 2006
ISBN 10: 0099486784
ISBN 13: 9780099486787
Book Overview: A heartbreaking and compelling WWII story of what war means for one young man

Media Reviews
Breathtakingly fine. Resonate in tone, surprising...eviscerating in its honesty, faceted in its complexity. Mr Arvin has accomplished what only a handful of writers have managed - he has crafted a spare and perfect masterwork. * Mark Spragg *
[A] short, furious novel... Articles of War presents a tough and visceral vision of war as a universe unto itself and a moral crucible * New York Times *
A gem of a book. . . Arvin evokes [battle] in perfect, riveting pitch... Beautifully written and timely * Washington Post *
Arvin's first novel is an elegant, understated testament to the stoicism, accidental cowardice and occasional heroics of men under fire. * Publishers Weekly *
Arvin is... capable of sentences that stop you cold * Newsweek *
Author Bio
Nick Arvin is a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop and the recipient of the Michener Fellowship. He is the author of a collection of short stories, In Electric Eden, and this is his first novel. In 2006 he received the Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Nick lives in Denver, Colorado where he works as a forensic engineer.