An edition of Matches (2005)

Matches

a novel

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An edition of Matches (2005)

Matches

a novel

1st ed.
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"Soldiers in the Gaza Strip always keep a bullet for themselves in case of capture. This reality lurks behind the swagger and bravado of young men armed to the teeth with guns and fear. Matches propels the reader into the life and mind of one such man, a young American member of the Israel Defense Forces. Patrolling the streets of the West Bank in the dead of night, playing a high-stakes off-duty game of Risk with his fellow soldiers, making illicit love to the wife of his best friend, Nathan Falk lives each moment with an increasing awareness of the arbitrary boundary between life and death. His story, told with the fierce intensity and poetic intimacy of a memoir, is an indelible portrait of the damage war does to the soul of a man."--BOOK JACKET.

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Language
English
Pages
245

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Matches: A Novel
2006, Little, Brown Book Group Limited
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Matches: A Novel
October 24, 2005, Back Bay Books
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Matches: a novel
2005, Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Company
in English - 1st ed.
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Matches: a novel
2005, Back Bay Books/Little, Brown and Company
in English - 1st ed.

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Table of Contents

pt. 1. The Jewish wars
What do you know?
Risk
G-beat
Goodbye house
Why not?
pt. 2. The Bedouin
pt. 3. The best soldier in a war
Captain Johnson
Battle of the bands
The spokesman
pt. 4. Horse sale
Fishing
Blame.

Edition Notes

Published in
New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
813/.54
Library of Congress
PS3561.A827 M38 2005, PS3561.A827M38 2005

The Physical Object

Pagination
245, 15 p. ;
Number of pages
245

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL24768108M
Internet Archive
matchesnovel00kauf
ISBN 10
031610664X
ISBN 13
9780316106641
LCCN
2005002592
OCLC/WorldCat
57549538

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL15859300W

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