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The Aardvark Is Ready for War by James W. Blinn (1997, Hardcover) 
The Aardvark Is Ready for War by James W. Blinn (1997, Hardcover)

 
The Aardvark Is Ready for War by James W. Blinn (1997, Hardcover)

Publisher: Little Brown & Co
Publication Date: 1997-05-01
Language: English
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-10: 0316099872
ISBN-13: 9780316099875
Product ID: EPID754828
Description: A satire about the Gulf War, featuring a decoding specialist in the U.S. Navy and his wacky crewmates.
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Synopsis
A satire about the Gulf War, featuring a decoding specialist in the U.S. Navy and his wacky crewmates.

Details
Publication Date:1997-05-01
Editor:Michael Pietsch

Size
Length:279 pages
Height:9.5 in
Width:6.0 in
Thickness:1.0 in
Weight:18.4 oz

Publisher's Note
Aardvark is a tactical jet crewman on board an aircraft carrier steaming to the Persian Gulf War. Nicknamed after the gas masks he and all combatants carry, Aardvark is a virtual warrior in the world's first virtual war. Sardonic and borderline, a camcorder voyeur and cathode ray tube assassin, he wears his aardvark mask constantly and tries to filter reality through digital or video screens at all times. In his incendiary narrative of the voyage from San Diego to the Gulf, Aardvark shows us the warping effects of his shipmates' slow realization that they have come not just to deliver death, but to risk death themselves. Through increasingly surreal daily training exercises and two phantasmagorical shore leaves, Aardvark sees violence, drunkenness, and sheer military lunacy embraced with heroic abandon. As the ship nears its destination, Aardvark finds his private mission going horribly awry - but there is still hope he can salvage everything with the right photo op.

Industry Reviews
"Every ten years, maybe, a new voice comes along with a book that you know will outlive the decade. Perhaps the definitive fictional evocation of the Gulf War, James Blinn's first novel...is that book. Along the way to this spectacular debut, Blinn appears to have digested the 20th century's most fiery fictional voices and come roaring through with an individual style to match the dirtiest, angriest and wittiest prose of his generation."
San Francisco Chronicle Book Review - Carey Harrison (07/20/1997)

"An antic, abrasively obscene, and extremely noisy first novel....[T]his debut has style and energy..."
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