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We Are Now Beginning Our Descent.(Brief article)(Book review)

The New Yorker

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Adam Kellas is a shambolic Scottish thirtysomething loser, unlucky in love and prone to inappropriate temper tantrums, who becomes a war correspondent, because he "wasn't brave enough to be thought a coward." When he is sent to Afghanistan to report on the American invasion in 2001, he rediscovers his sensitive side and falls in love with a tough, deer-hunting American named Astrid. Together, the two dodge "broccoli-shaped" bombs and ...

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