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An edition of The aardvark is ready for war (1997)

The aardvark is ready for war

a novel

1st ed.
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Aardvark is a tactical jet crewman on board an aircraft carrier steaming to the Persian Gulf War. Nicknamed after the gas masks he and all combatants carry, Aardvark is a virtual warrior in the world's first virtual war. Sardonic and borderline, a camcorder voyeur and cathode ray tube assassin, he wears his aardvark mask constantly and tries to filter reality through digital or video screens at all times.

In his incendiary narrative of the voyage from San Diego to the Gulf, Aardvark shows us the warping effects of his shipmates' slow realization that they have come not just to deliver death, but to risk death themselves. Through increasingly surreal daily training exercises and two phantasmagorical shore leaves, Aardvark sees violence, drunkenness, and sheer military lunacy embraced with heroic abandon.

As the ship nears its destination, Aardvark finds his private mission going horribly awry - but there is still hope he can salvage everything with the right photo op.

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Publisher
Little, Brown
Language
English
Pages
279

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Cover of: The aardvark is ready for war
The aardvark is ready for war
2003, Black Swan
in English
Cover of: The Aardvark is ready for war
The Aardvark is ready for war
2003, Thunder Mouth Press
in English - 1st Thunder's Mouth Press ed.
Cover of: The aardvark is ready for war
The aardvark is ready for war
1998, Anchor
in English
Cover of: The aardvark is ready for war
The aardvark is ready for war: a novel
1997, Little, Brown
in English - 1st ed.
Cover of: The aardvark is ready for war.
The aardvark is ready for war.
1997, Doubleday
in English

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Edition Notes

Published in
Boston
Genre
Fiction.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3552.L493 A63 1997, PS3552.L493A63 1997

The Physical Object

Pagination
279 p. ;
Number of pages
279

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL1007304M
Internet Archive
aardvarkisreadyf00blin
ISBN 10
0316099872
LCCN
96047187
OCLC/WorldCat
35792329
Library Thing
168274
Goodreads
3627366

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