From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant by Gilvarry, Alex

From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780143123064)

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From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant by Gilvarry, Alex

From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant

$16.00
From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant by Gilvarry, Alex

From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant

$16.00
Format: Paperback
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The critically acclaimed debut from Alex Gilvarry, a darkly comic love letter to New York, told through the eyes of Boy Hernandez: Filipino immigrant, glamour junkie, Guant疣amo detainee.

Alex Gilvarry's widely acclaimed first novel is the story of designer Boy Hernandez: Filipino immigrant, New York glamour junkie, Guant疣amo detainee. Locked away indefinitely and accused of being linked to a terrorist plot, Boy prepares for the tribunal of his life with this intimate confession, a dazzling swirl of soirees, runways, and hipster romance that charts one small man's undying love for New York City and his pursuit of the big American dream--even as the present nightmare of detainment chisels away at his vital wit and chutzpah.

A New York Times Editor's Choice, From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant unveils two of America's most illusory realms--high fashion and Homeland Security--in a funny, wise, and beguiling, and Kafkaesque tale for our strange times.

Author: Alex Gilvarry
ISBN-10: 0143123068
ISBN-13: 9780143123064
Publisher: Penguin Books
Language: English
Published: 12/24/2012
Pages: 320
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 8.17h x 5.36w x 0.68d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 02/03/2013 pg. 24
By Alex Gilvarry
By Alex Gilvarry
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Alex Gilvarry was born in Staten Island, New York, in 1981. He is the author of From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant, winner of the Hornblower Award for First Fiction (from the New York Society Library), Best New Voice by Bookspan, and selected by the New York Times as an Editor's Choice. He's a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 nominee and he has received fellowships from the Harry Ransom Center and the Normal Mailer Center. His essays and criticism have appeared in The New York Times Book Review, The Nation, Boston Globe, NPR's All Things Considered, and many other publications. His second novel, Eastman Was Here, was nominated for the PEN Open Book Award. He is a professor of creative writing at Monmouth University where he teaches fiction.

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