The Ice Beneath You
Autor Christian Baumanen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 aug 2002
Benjamin Jones, twenty-three, discharged after an army tour in Somalia, heads cross-country on a Greyhound, seeking refuge on the West Coast. He has left behind his best friend, Trevor, and Liz Ross, a female soldier with whom Jones has fallen in love. But Jones has also left behind a tragedy -- a horrible, split-second action made in Somalia -- that Trevor, Jones, and the army have implicitly agreed to forget.
Alone on the streets of San Francisco, and then north on the Washington coast, Jones finds that an uneducated ex-soldier is qualified only as a peep show fantasy object or as a hired hand to a bottom-feeding smuggler and pornographer. Recurring visions of his life as a soldier gradually reveal the full truth -- and agony -- of his experience, and a reunion with Liz and a violent confrontation with Trevor bring the young soldier's journey to a wrenching conclusion -- but one not without hope.
At equal turns tense, brutal, and poetic, "The Ice Beneath You" is a soldier's story for a time when there weren't supposed to be any more soldiers' stories.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780743227841
ISBN-10: 0743227840
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 136 x 202 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Touchstone Books
ISBN-10: 0743227840
Pagini: 256
Dimensiuni: 136 x 202 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Editura: Touchstone Books
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Descriere
Bauman's charged, muscular prose; his solid and piercing treatment of his characters; his careful and nuanced exploration of war, peace, honor, and purpose; and his jarring and utterly contemporary sense of dislocation mark "The Ice Beneath You" as a major addition to the literature of war.
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Contents
Prologue
Part One
The Ride West, Part One
JONES: One Sergeant
The Ride West, Part Two
Africa
JONES: Thirty Days in San Francisco, Part One
Kismaayo, Part One
JONES: Thirty Days in San Francisco, Part Two
Kismaayo, Part Two
JONES: Thirty Days in San Francisco, Part Three
On the Mike Nine-Three
JONES: Two Privates
Part Two
Shadowtime
The Art of Dishwashing, Part One
Endgame
The Art of Dishwashing, Part Two
Mogadishu
Part Three
Two Soldiers
After
JONES: One Soldier
Author's Note
Prologue
Part One
The Ride West, Part One
JONES: One Sergeant
The Ride West, Part Two
Africa
JONES: Thirty Days in San Francisco, Part One
Kismaayo, Part One
JONES: Thirty Days in San Francisco, Part Two
Kismaayo, Part Two
JONES: Thirty Days in San Francisco, Part Three
On the Mike Nine-Three
JONES: Two Privates
Part Two
Shadowtime
The Art of Dishwashing, Part One
Endgame
The Art of Dishwashing, Part Two
Mogadishu
Part Three
Two Soldiers
After
JONES: One Soldier
Author's Note