{"product_id":"buffalo-soldiers-isbn-9780679742036","title":"Buffalo Soldiers","description":"Set on a luxuriously appointed and hopelessly corrupt Army base in Mannheim, Germany, where the soldiers prefer real-life race riots to mock combat, Robert O'Connor's viciously funny novel is conclusive proof that peace is hell and the U.S. Army is its ninth circle.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn that hell, Specialist Ray Elwood is the ultimate survivor: a high-stakes drug dealer, bureaucratic con artist, and shrewd collector of other people's secrets. Elwood is contemplating cleaning up his act, although doing so will require one last, epic heroin deal. But of course it's then that his life will careen totally out of control. With its impeccably rendered cast of sycophants, drug burn-outs, and uniformed sociopaths, \u003cb\u003eBuffalo Soldiers\u003c\/b\u003e give us a scabrous, haunting vision of a military idled by the New World Order—and at all-out war with itself.\"An M-1 tank of a novel, fast and powerful and dangerous...way nasty and blindingly funny.\" —Jay McInerney\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This book may well find a place on the shelf with Joseph Heller's \u003cb\u003eCatch-22\u003c\/b\u003e.... It takes a fine novelist to tell such a sordid story so beautifully—and a brave one to hold out no hope for redemption but the jolting effect of a cold-eyed look at the truth.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003cb\u003eBuffalo Soldiers\u003c\/b\u003e rips a story of survival from the fearsome realm of the modern Army's barracks, trenches, and gutters. Military jargon becomes in-you-face narrative, punctuated by extremes of horror and humor.... This book is about now, and its present-tense urgency never flags.\" —\u003ci\u003eSeattle Times\/Post Intelligencer\u003c\/i\u003eRobert O'Connor was born in 1959, and received a B.A. in English\/Writing Arts from the State University of New York at Oswego. He also has an M.A. in English from Syracuse University, where he studied under Raymond Carver and Tobias Wolff. He currently teaches English and fiction writing at SUNY Oswego and lives in upstate New York with his wife, Donna, and family. \u003cb\u003eBuffalo Soldiers\u003c\/b\u003e is his first novel.","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303087395045,"sku":"NP9780679742036","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780679742036.jpg?v=1767723156","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/buffalo-soldiers-isbn-9780679742036","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}