- Paperback: 144 pages
- Publisher: Fugue State Pr (September 2003)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 1879193116
- ISBN-13: 978-1879193116
- Product Dimensions: 17.5 x 12.7 x 1 cm
- Shipping Weight: 227 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #1,517,141 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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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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White Trash Existentialism -- BRILLIANT, Feb 24 2005
By Tim Hall - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Human War (Paperback)
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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Review by Sam Pink, April 23 2011
By Sam Pink - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Human War (Paperback)
The Human War is a really good book. it is easy to read. it is funny and also insightful but never in a way that seems like the author is trying too hard. the book is about an individual's experience during the beginning of the war in iraq. probably my favorite thing about it, is that it doesn't try to define the war, or the situation or anything universal. the book examines one person's reaction, as he talks to other individuals. the end result is that nothing is determined, and each person must go on living as a single person, while things like war, absurdity, and interpersonal relationships threaten to discover the meaninglessness of life. i recommend this for fans of sartre, bukowski, and heidegger.
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Lindah Squeeze Me, Jan 28 2009
By Lucas E. Wildner "Lulululuw" - Published on Amazon.com
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If you think sentences--single sentences. You know the type: unmarried, lonesome, etc-- describe a particular aspect of the core of your being, then you're in luck because Cicero delves right into the problem of trying to get you to disagree with yourself in that those sentences really hate you.
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