
Cherry
A Novel
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Narrated by:
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Jeremy Bobb
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By:
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Nico Walker
Short-listed for PEN/Hemingway Award for Best First Novel, 2019
National Best Seller
Soon to be a major motion picture starring Tom Holland and directed by the Russo Brothers. A young medic returns from deployment in Iraq to two things: the woman he loves, and the opioid crisis sweeping across the Midwest.
In this “miracle of literary serendipity” (The Washington Post), after finding himself deep in the thrall of heroin addiction, the soldier arrives at what seems like the only logical solution: robbing banks.
Written by a singularly talented, wildly imaginative debut novelist, Cherry is a bracingly funny and unexpectedly tender work of fiction straight from the dark heart of America.
A PEN/Hemingway Award Finalist
A New York Times Notable Book
One of the Best Books of the Year: The New Yorker • Entertainment Weekly • Vulture • Vogue • Lit Hub
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Critic reviews
“Cherry is a miracle of literary serendipity, a triumph.... [Walker’s] language, relentlessly profane but never angry, simmers at the level of morose disappointment, something like Holden Caulfield Goes to War.... His prose echoes Ernest Hemingway’s cadences to powerful effect.... Cherry is written without an ounce of self-pity by an author allergic to the meretricious poetry of despair. In these propulsive pages, Walker draws us right into the mind of an ordinary young man beset by his own and his country’s demons. In the end, his only weapon against disintegration is his own devastating candor.” (The Washington Post)
“The rare work of literary fiction by a young American that carries with it nothing of the scent of an MFA program.... The voice Walker has fashioned has a lot in common with the one Denis Johnson conjured for his masterpiece Jesus’ Son..... A novel of searing beauty.” (Vulture)
“[An] unforgettable mix of doomed and dazzling.... There’s a vivid, repulsive truth in the way Walker renders his subjects - a sort of social truth, stripped of morality, which is rare and riveting when it comes to the subjects of opioid addiction, intimate everyday cruelty, and endless, meaningless war.” (The New Yorker)
“A singular portrait of the opioid epidemic.... [Walker] writes dialogue so musical and realistic you’ll hear it in the air around you.” (The New York Times Book Review)
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Life in vein
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