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Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 978-1-57131-067-5
Pages: 224
Publish Date: Dec, 2008
Genre: Fiction
The Farther Shore
BY Matthew Eck
In 1993, the battle of Mogadishu was the most intense combat Americans had engaged in since Vietnam. In this adrenaline-filled debut novel, Matthew Eck puts readers inside the mind of a young man caught in the fog of unexpected attack.
When a small unit of soldiers from the U.S. Army is separated from their command and left for dead, their only option is to keep moving, in hope that they will escape the marauding gangs and clansmen who appear to rule the city. After a series of horrifying, often violent encounters along the way, only a few of them survive. In this short war novel, the characters, both natives and invaders alike, are haunting—almost inhuman—and the emerging story reflects a new kind of military engagement, with all the attendant horrors and difficulties.
“Heir to Hemingway, and damn near as powerful as Cormac McCarthy in The Road (2006), Eck has created a contemporary version of The Red Badge of Courage in this tale of one young man’s trial by fire in the pandemonium of war in an age of high-tech weaponry and low-grade morality.”
—Booklist (STARRED REVIEW)
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The Farther Shore
Matthew Eck's debut novel and winner of the Milkweed National Fiction Prize.
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