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War of the Encyclopaedists audiobook
- By: Christopher Robinson
- Narrator: Christopher Robinson
- Category: Coming of Age, Fiction
- Length: 13 hours 17 minutes
- Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
- Publish date: January 01, 2015
- Language: English
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War of the Encyclopaedists Audiobook Summary
“A captivating coming-of-age novel that is, by turns, funny and sad and elegiac” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times) about two best friends as their post-grad lives diverge–one into liberal academia, the other into the American military occupation of Iraq.
On a summer night in 2004, prepping for another blowout party in the arty Seattle enclave of Capitol Hill, Mickey Montauk has just learned that he won’t be joining his best friend, Halifax Corderoy, for grad school in Boston. Global events have intervened, and Mickey’s National Guard unit will soon deploy to Baghdad. But before he can make this stunning revelation, events spiral beyond their control. In the bleary-eyed dawn, Mickey and Hal glimpse their radically altered future, the start of a year that will transform them all.
Months later, Mickey struggles to lead his platoon safely through an increasingly violent and confusing war. In Boston, Hal finds himself unable to play the game of intellectual one-upmanship with the ease of his new classmates. When Hal’s new roommate, Tricia, and ex-girlfriend, Mani, come between the best friends, Hal and Mickey find that cool irony and youthful self-regard cannot insulate them from the damages of love and conflict and the messiness of living. As Mickey and Hal’s lives move further away from their shared dream, they keep in touch by editing a Wikipedia article about themselves: absurd and hilarious updates that morph and deepen throughout the year, culminating in a document that is both devastatingly tragic and profoundly poetic.
“One of the most revealing novels yet about the millennial generation” (Esquire), War of the Encyclopaedists beats with the energetic pulse of idealistic youth on the threshold of adult reality. It is the vital, urgent, and utterly absorbing lament of searching for meaning and hope in a fractured world: “A love story, a war story, and also a generational one, about coming of age in the time of Wikipedia and YouTube…darkly funny and absurd and terrifying at the same time” (The Wall Street Journal).
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War of the Encyclopaedists Audiobook Narrator
Christopher Robinson is the narrator of War of the Encyclopaedists audiobook that was written by Christopher Robinson
Christopher Robinson, a Boston University and Hunter College MFA graduate, is a MacDowell Colony fellow and a Yale Younger Poets Prize finalist. His writing has appeared in many publications, including The Kenyon Review and McSweeney’s.
About the Author(s) of War of the Encyclopaedists
Christopher Robinson is the author of War of the Encyclopaedists
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War of the Encyclopaedists Full Details
| Narrator | Christopher Robinson |
| Length | 13 hours 17 minutes |
| Author | Christopher Robinson |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Simon & Schuster Audio |
| Release date | April 20, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9781442385771 |
Subjects
The publisher of the War of the Encyclopaedists is Simon & Schuster Audio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Coming of Age, Fiction
Additional info
The publisher of the War of the Encyclopaedists is Simon & Schuster Audio. The imprint is Simon & Schuster Audio. It is supplied by Simon & Schuster Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781442385771.
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