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I'd walk with my friends if I could find them
- Title
- I'd walk with my friends if I could find them / Jesse Goolsby.
- Author
- Goolsby, Jesse.
- Publication
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Book/Text | Use in library | JFD 15-2517 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 292 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- "In this powerful debut novel, three American soldiers haunted by their actions in Afghanistan search for absolution and human connection in family and civilian life. Wintric Ellis joins the army as soon as he graduates from high school, saying goodbye to his girlfriend, Kristen, and to the backwoods California town whose borders have always been the limits of his horizon. Deployed for two years in Afghanistan in a directionless war, he struggles to find his bearings in a place where allies could at any second turn out to be foes. Two career soldiers, Dax and Torres, take Wintric under their wing. Together, these three men face an impossible choice: risk death or commit a harrowing act of war. The aftershocks echo long after each returns home to a transfigured world, where his own children may fear to touch him and his nightmares still hold sway. Jesse Goolsby casts backward and forward in time to track these unforgettable characters from childhood to parenthood, from redwood forests to open desert roads to the streets of Kabul. Hailed by Robert Olen Butler as a "major literary event," I'd Walk with My Friends If I Could Find Them is a work of disarming eloquence and heart-wrenching wisdom, and a debut novel from a writer to watch"--
- Alternative Title
- I would walk with my friends if I could find them
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- War stories.
- Call Number
- JFD 15-2517
- ISBN
- 9780544380981
- 0544380983
- LCCN
- 2014034425
- OCLC
- 2014034425
- Author
- Goolsby, Jesse.
- Title
- I'd walk with my friends if I could find them / Jesse Goolsby.
- Publisher
- Boston : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2015.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Research Call Number
- JFD 15-2517