Vassily, the voice of Noah Cicero's new novel, is a different sort of insurgent. An insurgent battling abjection, poverty, and depression in a 21st century Middle America rapidly devolving into Third World inscrutability. In his fifth work of fiction, the Rustbelt's voice of defiance puts forth his most anti-heroic message to date, bringing us back to the homeland to see that the real insurgency lies within ourselves.
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Some novelists gently chisel their thoughts and ideas into refined, disciplined works of art, taking care to respect tradition and leave nary a flake of rock where unneeded. By contrast, ulcerous Ohioan Noah Cicero uses the language like a baseball bat, pounding his mind and soul and channeling his rage and suffering through the simplest form imaginable, a style he calls existential minimalism...Fans of Beckett and Bukowski are hereby placed on notice. --Emerson Dameron, Zine World
The strife and anger that resides and breeds like a mutated rabbit in such an unsettling city as Youngstown is found in all of Noah's words. Noah's words hold harshness and quickness to them, and with most stories being built on character's thoughts rather than long drawn out dialogue, the true presence of Youngstown is always felt in how characters tend to abide in a vulgar anger reaction to the hopelessness of their situation. All this creates a trademark that always points back to Youngstown, just like how the echo of the doom sound Tony Iommi made in Black Sabbath always harked back to life in the unemployed city of Birmingham, England no matter what pile of apocalyptic visions Ozzy sang about. --Matt DeBenedictis
The strife and anger that resides and breeds like a mutated rabbit in such an unsettling city as Youngstown is found in all of Noah's words. Noah's words hold harshness and quickness to them, and with most stories being built on character's thoughts rather than long drawn out dialogue, the true presence of Youngstown is always felt in how characters tend to abide in a vulgar anger reaction to the hopelessness of their situation. All this creates a trademark that always points back to Youngstown, just like how the echo of the doom sound Tony Iommi made in Black Sabbath always harked back to life in the unemployed city of Birmingham, England no matter what pile of apocalyptic visions Ozzy sang about. --Matt DeBenedictis
About the Author
Noah Cicero is the author of several novels, including The Human War, Burning Babies, Treatise, and The Condemned. He has been published in numerous online and print journals, including Black Ice, Identity Theory, Noo Journal, and Prague Literary Review. His first novel, The Human War, is currently being made into an independent film. He is 29, lives in Youngstown, Ohio, and studies Political Science at Youngstown State University.
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3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
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Review by Sam Pink,
This review is from: The Insurgent (Paperback)
this is my favorite cicero book. it seems the most complete and classical in style. it still has the essential cicero panic-tone, but it manages to have a very nice narrative. i have read it twice and will read it many more times. it makes me feel better about myself because i know that there are other unhappy/hopeless people in the world. i also feel like this book will help my sex life. in the book, the main character has sex with a girl who has bad stretch marks. one time when i was about to have sex with a girl, i stopped because the stretch marks freaked me out. i now know i was wrong, and that next time i will push on and have sex with her. freedom!
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I enjoyed this book.,
This review is from: The Insurgent (Paperback)
I've read this book three or four times. The last time I read it I remember feeling really calm after finishing, more calm than I could remember feeling from reading anything else for a long time, probably at least two years. I think the first five or so chapters are really funny. There is an Asian character and another character and they're emotional and make jokes and talk about how sad they feel. Then they find a lot of oxies in a bathroom and go on a quest to sell them. With the money they make they go on a road-trip. Typing this summary I feel like I want to read it again.
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