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The gimmicks : a novel
- Title
- The gimmicks : a novel / Chris McCormick.
- Author
- McCormick, Chris, 1987-
- Publication
- New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2020]
- ©2020
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 20-4502 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
- Description
- 354 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "Set in the waning years of the Cold War, a stunning debut novel about a trio of young Armenians that moves from the Soviet Union, across Europe, to Southern California, and at its center, one of the most tragic cataclysms in twentieth-century history - the Armenian Genocide - whose traumatic reverberations will have unexpected consequences on all three lives. This exuberant, wholly original novel begins in Kirovakan, Armenia, in 1971. Ruben Petrosian is a serious, solitary young man who cares about two things: mastering the game of backgammon to beat his archrival, Mina, and studying the history of his ancestors. Ruben grieves the victims of the 1915 Armenian Genocide, a crime still denied by the descendants of its perpetrators, and dreams of vengeance. When his orphaned cousin, Avo, comes to live with his family, Ruben's life is transformed. Gregarious and physically enormous, with a distinct unibrow that becomes his signature, Avo is instantly beloved. He is everything Ruben is not, yet the two form a bond they swear never to break. But their paths diverge when Ruben vanishes -- drafted into an extremist group that will stop at nothing to make Turkey acknowledge the genocide. Unmoored by Ruben's disappearance, Avo and Mina grow close in his absence. But fate brings the cousins together once more, when Ruben secretly contacts Avo, convincing him to leave Mina and join the extremists -- a choice that will dramatically alter the course of their lives. Left to unravel the threads of this story is Terry "Angel Hair" Krill, a veteran of both the US Navy and the funhouse world of professional wrestling, whose life intersects with Avo, Ruben, and Mina's in surprising and devastating ways. Told through alternating perspectives, The Gimmicks is a masterpiece of storytelling. Chris McCormick brilliantly illuminates the impact of history and injustice on ordinary lives and challenges us to confront the spectacle of violence and the specter of its aftermath." --
- Subjects
- Extremists
- Armenians
- Backgammon
- Wrestling promoters
- Extremists > Armenia > Fiction
- Backgammon > Fiction
- Wrestling promoters > Fiction
- Armenians > United States > Fiction
- Armenian Genocide, 1915-1923 > Fiction
- Armenia > Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Asia > Armenia
- Armenian Massacres > (1915-1923)
- Triangles (Interpersonal relations) > Fiction
- Families > Fiction
- Fiction
- 1915-1923
- United States
- Genre/Form
- Fiction.
- Historical fiction.
- Call Number
- JFE 20-4502
- ISBN
- 9780062908568
- 0062908561
- OCLC
- 1100599334
- Author
- McCormick, Chris, 1987- author.
- Title
- The gimmicks : a novel / Chris McCormick.
- Publisher
- New York : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2020]
- Copyright Date
- ©2020
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Chronological Term
- 1915-1923
- Research Call Number
- JFE 20-4502