From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant
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SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. First Edition/First Printing. New book, opened only for signing. Very Fine condition. Brodart protected. Ships in a box.
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Fashionistas and g-men clash in a mastermindful debut
Boyet Hernandez is a small man with a big American dream when he arrives in New York in 2002, fresh out of fashion school in the Philippines. But on the brink of fame and fortune, there comes instead a knock on the door in the middle of the night: the flamboyant ex-Catholic is swept to America s most notorious prison, administered a Qur an and locked away indefinitely to discover his link to a terrorist plot.
Now, in his six-by-eight-foot cell, Boy prepares for the tribunal of his life with this intimate confession. From borrowed mattress to converted toothpick factory loft, from custom suit commissions to high-end retail, we are immersed in a wonderland of soirees, runways, and hipster romance in twenty-first-century Gotham. Boy is equally at home (if sometimes comically misinformed) invoking Dostoevsky and Diane von Furstenberg, the Marcos tyranny and Marc Jacobs, the vicissitudes of memory and the indignity of the walking sandwich board. But behind the scrim of his wit and chutzpah is his present nightmare of detainment in the sun-baked place he calls No Man s Land. The more Boy s faith in American justice is usurped by the Kafkaesque demands of his interrogator, the more ardently he clings to the chimerical hope and humanity of his adoptive country.
Funny, wise and beguiling, "From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant" gives us a tale so eerily evocative that it, and its hero, are poised to become an indelible part of the reader s imagination and the literature of our strange times.
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Product Info
ISBN: 0670023191
ISBN-13: 9780670023196
Publisher: Viking
Year: 2012
Type: New
Binding: Hardcover
First Edition
Signed
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