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THE VOLUNTEER - SALVATORE SCIBONA KARTONIERT (TB)

Thrilling… Scibona has built a masterpiece. - The New York Times Book Review All of it - all of
it - is just so ridiculously beautiful. - Jason Sheehan  NPR.org The rewards are enormous. This
is a spectacular work of fiction. - San Francisco Chronicle A long-awaited new novel from a
National Book Award Finalist  the epic story of a restless young man who is captured during the
Vietnam War and pressed into service for a clandestine branch of the United States government A
small boy speaking an unknown language is abandoned by his father at an international airport 
with only the clothes on his back and a handful of money jammed in the pocket of his coat. So
begins The Volunteer. But in order to understand this heartbreaking and indefensible decision 
the story must return to the moment  decades earlier  when a young man named Vollie Frade 
almost on a whim  enlists in the United States Marine Corps to fight in Vietnam. Breaking
definitively from his rural Iowan parents  Vollie puts in motion an unimaginable chain of
events  which sees him go to work for insidious people with intentions he cannot yet grasp.
From the Cambodian jungle  to a flophouse in Queens  to a commune in New Mexico  Vollie's path
traces a secret history of life on the margins of America  culminating with an inevitable and
terrible reckoning. With intense feeling  uncommon erudition  and bracing style  Scibona offers
at once a pensive exploration of how we are capable of both inventing and discovering our true
families and a lacerating interrogation of institutional power at its most commanding and
terrifying. An odyssey of loss and salvation ranging across four generations of fathers and
sons  The Volunteer is a triumph in the grandest traditions of American storytelling.

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