Cherry

A Novel

De: Nico Walker

Narrado por: Jeremy Bobb

Duración: 8 h y 5 m

Resumen del Editor

National Best Seller

Soon to be a major motion picture starring Tom Holland and directed by the Russo Brothers. A young medic returns from deployment in Iraq to two things: the woman he loves, and the opioid crisis sweeping across the Midwest.

In this “miracle of literary serendipity” (The Washington Post), after finding himself deep in the thrall of heroin addiction, the soldier arrives at what seems like the only logical solution: robbing banks.

Written by a singularly talented, wildly imaginative debut novelist, Cherry is a bracingly funny and unexpectedly tender work of fiction straight from the dark heart of America.

A PEN/Hemingway Award Finalist
A New York Times Notable Book
One of the Best Books of the Year: The New Yorker • Entertainment Weekly • Vulture • Vogue • Lit Hub

©2018 Nico Walker (P)2018 Random House Audio

Reseñas de la Crítica

“Cherry is a miracle of literary serendipity, a triumph.... [Walker’s] language, relentlessly profane but never angry, simmers at the level of morose disappointment, something like Holden Caulfield Goes to War.... His prose echoes Ernest Hemingway’s cadences to powerful effect.... Cherry is written without an ounce of self-pity by an author allergic to the meretricious poetry of despair. In these propulsive pages, Walker draws us right into the mind of an ordinary young man beset by his own and his country’s demons. In the end, his only weapon against disintegration is his own devastating candor.” (The Washington Post)

“The rare work of literary fiction by a young American that carries with it nothing of the scent of an MFA program.... The voice Walker has fashioned has a lot in common with the one Denis Johnson conjured for his masterpiece Jesus’ Son..... A novel of searing beauty.” (Vulture)

“[An] unforgettable mix of doomed and dazzling.... There’s a vivid, repulsive truth in the way Walker renders his subjects - a sort of social truth, stripped of morality, which is rare and riveting when it comes to the subjects of opioid addiction, intimate everyday cruelty, and endless, meaningless war.” (The New Yorker)

“A singular portrait of the opioid epidemic.... [Walker] writes dialogue so musical and realistic you’ll hear it in the air around you.” (The New York Times Book Review)

Cherry - Amazing First Effort

I first learned about Nico Walker in the NYT Review of Books. This young man's personal story was so compelling that I jotted the title of his book down on my reading list right away. I'm glad I saw that audible had already recorded it before I purchased it in hard copy because Jeremy Bobb absolutely blew my mind reading this book to me. Between Nico's brutal rendering of what he assures us are events that never happened and people who never existed and Jeremy's tough but tender portrayal of the narrator and main protagonist in this story of a lost soul gone to war and then to hell and back was moving and heartbreaking and funny all at the same time. This book will make you think and feel differently about the costs that our young men and women are paying for the rest of us to turn our faces away from the endless conflicts we send them into.

amazing!

Like a good friend telling you his story. So glad I took a chance on this barely-reviewed book.

Loved it

Not sure that this is a fiction, but it was so great. Thank you for telling this story.

Life in vein

The story opens by emphasizing that the characters & the story were not based on true events. However, I find it hard to believe, in this gritty story of war, love & addiction, that the author hadn't actually lived the part of the protagonist. Jeremy Bobb's excellent performance makes the fictional novel come across as a autobiography!

excellent!

I loved this book. It was fast paced well written and fun to listen to. I highly recommend it.

being an ex-junky is much cooler than being a junky

this was brilliant. The sensitivity and ability to explain and make entertaining such a tired genre of writing was phenomenal (which i spelled wrong so factor that into my credentials as a critic) i dont know what it’s like to be a soldier or a medic but i sure know what it’s like to be a repentant semi-comedic criminal with a bad case of the opiates and this dude Nico got it all right. If there were a secret handshake he would know it and in a totally selfish way it felt comforting to hear him suffer the all too true and universal junk problems only people who think too much suffer. The clever narration and spot on story telling made this a great listen! I give it the full five 💉💉💉💉💉

Engaging yet frightening

As a Iraq vet I found this story as engaging as it is frightening. I knew men like the author whose nihilism yet hedonism came into direct conflict with the reality of war. The story after combat is but a natural progression of what could easily be the fate of any man put in the same situation.

every once in a while.......

Story and Narrator come together so well in this one! Hope to have another soon by Nico Walker and I have already looked up other narrations by Jeremy Bobb

The ending sucked.

The story was hard to hear because it was heartbreaking but I am sick to death of the cop out endings that seem to be the norm these days. I get it... Come to your own conclusions..... Life doesn't have easy answers. I read because I want a story with a beginning, middle, and end. The performer was outstanding. The story was really good... Hard to hear, but nonetheless a good story. The ending just left me mad.

Jeremy Bobb MAKES this

The material can run on a little, but in a Hemingway vibe so it’s fine. But wow, Jeremy Bobb keeps you locked in. It’s worth the listen for sure.