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The diary of one man's journey into battle in the Gulf War. As he joins his ship and sets off on the long voyage to the Gulf, the world is suddenly filled with high-tech voyeurs. America has turned off soaps and football, and tuned in to CNN's hour-by-hour coverage of the build-up to destruction.
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"Imagine Celine was still alive to write a book about the American experience in the Gulf War. Now imagine that, overcome by arthritis, he didn't write it at all, but that it was in fact ghost written by Po Bronson, author of Bombadiers. What you'll end up with is something not unlike James Blinn's first novel. . . . This is a cracking book; well observed, funny, intelligent, fresh and disturbing. It works well on every level: as a meditation on modern war, as a peripatetic tale of a man coming to terms with himself, as an exposition of navy life. . . . Five stars."
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On board a US aircraft carrier en route for the Gulf, an electronic surveillance specialist, nicknamed the Aardvark, is preparing himself for war. Trained to seek out and destroy submarines, he is confused to find himself pitted against an enemy who have no subs.
The air of unreality pervades the ship as its crew, high on patriotism, violence and porn, watch the Gulf approach and begin to wonder whether this really is a war or merely a simulation of one? Are people really getting killed or is it one big video game? What can one man do when the enemy is never seen and death is silent and comes from afar? Welcome to the dark and terrifying absurdities of modern war.
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- PublisherDoubleday
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0385408951
- ISBN 13 9780385408950
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages288
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