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  • FOBBIT. by Abrams, David.
    Abrams, David.
    FOBBIT.

    Edition: Trade paperback original.

    New York: Black Cat / Grove Atlantic, (2012). SIGNED - The author's first novel, an "Iraq war comedy." SIGNED on the title page. Cover praise from Karl Marlantes (who called it "hilarious, but the subject matter is deadly serious"), Jonathan Evison ("it deserves a place alongside Slaughterhouse-Five and Catch 22 as one of our great comic novels about the absurdity of war") and more. 369 pp. ISBN: 9780802120328.

    Condition: Fine in wrappers with French flaps. Promotional postcard laid in.

    Book ID: 62815
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  • BUFFALO SOLDIERS. by O'Connor, Robert.
    O'Connor, Robert.
    BUFFALO SOLDIERS.

    Edition: First printing.

    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - Granta 20 author's very highly praised first novel - "Set on a luxuriously appointed and hopelessly corrupt Army base in Mannheim, Germany, where the soldiers prefer real-life race riots to mock combat, [this] viciously funny novel is conclusive proof that peace is hell and the U.S. Army is its ninth circle. Specialist Ray Elwood is the ultimate survivor: a high-stakes drug dealer, bureaucratic con artist, and shrewd collector of other people's secrets. . . With its impeccably rendered cast of sycophants, drug burn-outs, and uniformed sociopaths, [this is] a scabrous, haunting vision of a military idled by the New World Order and at all-out war with itself." Basis…

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    New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1993. dj. Hardcover first edition - Granta 20 author's very highly praised first novel - "Set on a luxuriously appointed and hopelessly corrupt Army base in Mannheim, Germany, where the soldiers prefer real-life race riots to mock combat, [this] viciously funny novel is conclusive proof that peace is hell and the U.S. Army is its ninth circle. Specialist Ray Elwood is the ultimate survivor: a high-stakes drug dealer, bureaucratic con artist, and shrewd collector of other people's secrets. . . With its impeccably rendered cast of sycophants, drug burn-outs, and uniformed sociopaths, [this is] a scabrous, haunting vision of a military idled by the New World Order and at all-out war with itself." Basis for the 2001 film starring Ed Harris, Joaquin Phoenix, and Anna Paquin. Cover praise from J. G. Ballard, James Ellroy and more. 324 pp. ISBN: 0-67941508.

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    Condition: Fine in a fine dust jacket (as new.)

    Book ID: 86724
    View cart More details Price: $45.00