Waiting for Eden
New York : Alfred A. Knopf, [2018]
Format: Book
Edition: First edition.
Description: 173 pages ; 20 cm
"Patiently, and unflinchingly, Ackerman is becoming one of the great poet laureates of America's tragic adventurism across the globe." --Pico Iyer
Eden lies in a hospital bed, unable to move or speak. His wife Mary spends every day on the sofa in his room. We see them through the eyes of Eden's best friend, a fellow Marine who didn't make it back home--and who must relive the secrets held between all three of them as he waits for Eden to finally, mercifully die and join him in whatever comes after.
A breathtakingly spare and shattering novel that explores the unseen aftereffects--and unacknowledged casualties--of war, Waiting for Eden is a piercingly insightful, deeply felt meditation on loyalty, friendship, betrayal, and love.
"The Tim O'Brien of our era." -- Vogue
"Devastating." -- The Wall Street Journal
"Haunting. . . . Daring." -- The Boston Globe
"Heart-wrenching." --NPR
Eden lies in a hospital bed, unable to move or speak. His wife Mary spends every day on the sofa in his room. We see them through the eyes of Eden's best friend, a fellow Marine who didn't make it back home--and who must relive the secrets held between all three of them as he waits for Eden to finally, mercifully die and join him in whatever comes after.
A breathtakingly spare and shattering novel that explores the unseen aftereffects--and unacknowledged casualties--of war, Waiting for Eden is a piercingly insightful, deeply felt meditation on loyalty, friendship, betrayal, and love.
"The Tim O'Brien of our era." -- Vogue
"Devastating." -- The Wall Street Journal
"Haunting. . . . Daring." -- The Boston Globe
"Heart-wrenching." --NPR
ISBN:
9781101947395 (hardcover : alk. paper)
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
F Ackerman | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Fiction | In |