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Ed O'Loughlin
ISBN: 9780857388339
Format: Paperback
Publisher:Quercus Publishing Plc
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Toploader is a wonderfully original novel that serves as a razor-sharp satire on the absurdity of war, and how the depersonalization of death and injury is meant to make it acceptable.
Flora is a plucky teenage girl. Cobra is a double agent. Flint Driscoll is a reporter. Captain Smith is a military man. Moon is a bored drone pilot. Daddy Jesus is an inflictor of pain. All they have in common is a very stupid war.
| ISBN | 0857388339 | | DEWEY edition | DC23 | | ISBN13 | 9780857388339
(What's this?) | | Pages | 336 | | Publisher | Quercus Publishing Plc | | Published in | London | | Imprint | Quercus Publishing Plc | | Height (mm) | 198 | | Format | Paperback | | Width (mm) | 132 | | Publication date | 07 Jun 2012 | | Academic level | General | | DEWEY | 823.92 | |
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'darkly enjoyable war-com romp ... one absurdist delight follows another in rapid succession' Guardian. 'Hilarious stuff - very Dr Strangelove' Irish Times. 'Ingenious ... Wonderfully rich' Sunday Telegraph. 'Cynical, funny, harrowing and revelatory' Sunday Business Post. 'Ex-war reporter O'Loughlin's darkly comic thriller highlighting the hypocrisy and absurdities of the 'war against terror' is set in a dystopian future that feels all too familiar' Seven magazine. 'O'Loughlin's aims are worthy, his targets apt, and his descriptions of a war zone evocative' Independent on Sunday.  Be the first to write a customer review
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