Buffalo Soldiers/a Novel - Hardcover

O'Connor, Robert

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0679415084 ISBN 13: 9780679415084

Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc, 1993

Synopsis

Army man Ray Elwood, battalion commander's clerk and troop heroin dealer, struggles to deal with peacetime boredom while stationed in the no-man's-land of Mannheim in the Federal Republic of Germany. A first novel. 10,000 first printing. $15,000 ad/promo.

About this title

Review:

"An M-1 tank of a novel, fast and powerful and dangerous...way nasty and blindingly funny." --Jay McInerney

"This book may well find a place on the shelf with Joseph Heller's Catch-22.... It takes a fine novelist to tell such a sordid story so beautifully--and a brave one to hold out no hope for redemption but the jolting effect of a cold-eyed look at the truth." --The New York Times Book Review

"Buffalo Soldiers rips a story of survival from the fearsome realm of the modern Army's barracks, trenches, and gutters. Military jargon becomes in-you-face narrative, punctuated by extremes of horror and humor.... This book is about now, and its present-tense urgency never flags." --Seattle Times/Post Intelligencer

Book Description:

Robert O'Connor's viciously funny novel is conclusive proof that peace is hell and the US Army is in its ninth circle... now a major film starring Joaquin Phoenix.

About this edition

• Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Inc
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0679415084
• ISBN 13: 9780679415084
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1