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Paperback 336 Pages
Published: 27/02/2020
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NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE FROM APPLE TV+ STARRING TOM HOLLAND

Cleveland, Ohio, 2003. A young man is just a college freshman when he meets Emily. They share a passion for Edward Albee and ecstasy and fall hard and fast in love. But soon Emily has to move home to Elba, New York, and he flunks out of school and joins the army.

Desperate to keep their relationship alive, they marry before he ships out to Iraq. But as an army medic, he is unprepared for the grisly reality that awaits him. His fellow soldiers smoke; they huff computer duster; they take painkillers; they watch porn. And many of them die. He and Emily try to make their long-distance marriage work, but when he returns from Iraq, his PTSD is profound, and the drugs on the street have changed. The opioid crisis is beginning to swallow up the Midwest.

Soon he is hooked on heroin, and so is Emily. They attempt a normal life, but with their money drying up, he turns to the one thing he thinks he could be really good at - robbing banks.

Hammered out on a prison typewriter, Cherry marks the arrival of a raw, bleakly hilarious, and surprisingly poignant voice straight from the dark heart of America.

Publisher: Vintage Publishing
ISBN: 9781784708832
Number of pages: 336
Weight: 268 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 20 mm


MEDIA REVIEWS

A remarkable accomplishment… [Cherry] will shake your soul. - Atticus Lish, Harper's Magazine

[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. - New Yorker

Cherry is a miracle of literary serendipity, a triumph... 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. - Washington Post

The first great novel of the opioid epidemic. - New York Magazine

It is full of slapstick comedy, despite gut-wrenching depictions of dope sickness, the futility of war and PTSD... [Walker] writes dialogue so musical and realistic you’ll hear it in the air around you. - New York Times Book Review

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miss.mesmerized

“Cherry”

2003, Cleveland. He has just arrived at uni when he meets Emily and falls for her immediately. They love each other passionately, just as they love Ecstasy. When Emily moves back home to Elba and splits up, he loses... More

Hardback edition
Helpful? Upvote 56

“Brutal but amazing!”

This is an amazing novel. The writing style reminded me of J D Salinger (which is one of the highest compliments I can give!), but updated for millennials, with added sex and brutality. It's marketed as fiction,... More

Hardback edition
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Jay Sefton

“Powerful, disturbing with a bit of humour thrown in”

This is a raw and visceral account of a young man from his schooldays through his distressing experiences of drug abuse and war. Written in the first person as he thinks and speaks, the unnamed protagonist tells his... More

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