Jesus' Son meets Reservoir Dogs in a breakneck-paced debut novel about love, war, bank robberies, and heroin
Nico Walker is originally from Cleveland. He served as a medic on more than 250 missions in Iraq. Currently he has two more years to serve of an eleven-year sentence for bank robbery. Cherry is his debut novel.
A remarkable accomplishment… [Cherry] will shake your soul.
*Harper's Magazine*
[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.
*New Yorker*
Cherry is a miracle of literary serendipity, a triumph... 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.
*Washington Post*
The first great novel of the opioid epidemic.
*New York Magazine*
It is full of slapstick comedy, despite gut-wrenching depictions of
dope sickness, the futility of war and PTSD... [Walker] writes
dialogue so musical and realistic you’ll hear it in the air around
you.
*New York Times Book Review*
After page one, only the faint-hearted will manage to put down this
brilliant screech from a life of war, crime and addiction, a
powerful book that declares the arrival of a real writer who has
made art out of anguish.
*Thomas McGuane, author of Cloudbursts and Ninety-two in the
Shade*
Exceptional… This is a book that feels casually hilarious if you
read a couple of pages; if you read a chapter it becomes
impressive; and by the time you’ve finished, it’s devastating.
*Guardian*
One of the year’s most talked-about books… Cherry has been compared
with Hemingway, Denis Johnson and Salinger’s Holden Caulfield, and
to that you could add Jack Kerouac … This rough, raw and poetic
novel gives an unforgettable voice to a hollowed-out America in the
grip of the opioid crisis.
*Metro*
Nico Walker’s first book has been compared to The Catcher in the
Rye… A mix of deadpan funny, gently mournful and, at times,
absolutely harrowing, Cherry is… the kind of literary debut authors
dream about. Minus the being in prison part.
*Sunday Times*
[Cherry] presents a searing indictment of both war and the
indifference of the society in whose name war is fought… In this
troubling and powerful book, Walker has surely created one of the
most distinctive and memorable novels of the year.
*Tablet, *Novel of the Week**
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