Alex Gilvarry

From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant

A Novel

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Boyet Hernandez arrives in New York in 2002, fresh out of design school in Manila, and sets up shop in Brooklyn. But mere weeks after a high-end retail order promises to catapult his (B)oy label to the big time, the flamboyant ex-Catholic Boyet is brought to Gitmo, handed a Koran, and locked away indefinitely on suspicion of being linked to a terrorist plot.

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-14-312306-4
EAN: 9780143123064
Produktnummer: 19407914
Verlag: Random House N.Y.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
Seitenangabe: 320 S.

Über den Autor

Alex Gilvarry was born in Staten Island, New York in 1981. He is the author of From the Memoirs of a Non-Enemy Combatant, winner of the Hornblower Award for First Fiction and Best New Voice 2012 by Bookspan, and was selected by the New York Times as an Editor's Choice. His second novel, Eastman Was Here, will be published by Viking in August 2017. He is a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree and has received fellowships from the Harry Ransom Center and the Norman Mailer Center. His essays and criticism have appeared in The Nation, Boston Globe, NPR's All Things Considered, and many other publications. He is a professor at Monmouth University where he teaches fiction.