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The Human War | 
 enlarge | Author: Noah Cicero
Publisher: Fugue State Press
Category: Book
Buy New: $12.00
Avg. Customer Rating:  2 reviews
Sales Rank: 419115
Media: Paperback
Pages: 142
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.8 x 4.8 x 0.5
ISBN: 1879193116
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781879193116
ASIN: 1879193116
Publication Date: June 2003
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Product Description
This very funny, very bleak novella, "The Human War," is about the first hours of the 2003 war in Iraq, as experienced by a screwed-up kid in Ohio who feels the world is spinning out of his control. His reaction to the coming war? He drinks, has sex, goes to a strip club, he does anything that Youngstown, Ohio offers as human distraction--but this only makes his horror deepen. Noah Cicero’s deadpan humor is reminiscent of Beckett, and "A Human War" is a blackly funny and deeply cruel look at the cold hearts of men. The novella is accompanied by two outstanding short stories, "The Doomed" and "Little Flowers," both dark, funny vignettes on the impossibility of human interaction: further examples of Noah Cicero’s wicked talent. This is Noah Cicero’s first book. He lives in Youngstown, Ohio.
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I really like this book. Read it. June 2, 2008
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I really like this book. It's honest. The language is honest. Noah is effectively communicating with The Human War.
Buy this book.
White Trash Existentialism -- BRILLIANT February 25, 2005
21 out of 23 found this review helpful
Imagine if Sartre and de Beauvoir battled it out on The Jerry Springer Show, and you get an idea what reading this book is like. Noah Cicero is one of the most amazing voices in fiction I've ever discovered. Remember the first time you read Bukowski, Miller, or Ginsberg's HOWL? Reading this book was like that for me: it just riveted me to the back of my seat and made me shake my head in wonder.
Noah's great innovation is the "sentegraph": prose so clipped that each line becomes poetry; the perfect obverse of "vers libre" poets who simply write prose with irregular line breaks. Noah comes screaming from the rust belt hell of Youngstown, Ohio, but don't expect just another sad-sack, Harvey Pekar type of artist: Cicero is young, brilliant, fearless, and completely original. He hangs out in Denny's and goes to strip bars and, in this book--written on the eve of the Gulf War II--rages against war and politics and the horror and emptiness the eve of war has caused him.
I cannot recommend this book highly enough. I hope this has helped.
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