{"product_id":"daybreak-9781501177859","title":"Daybreak","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Gallagher’s plot artfully connects the present-day conflict to previous wars by referencing such stories as \u003ci\u003eA Farewell to Arms \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eCasablanca\u003c\/i\u003e without sacrificing a sense of urgency. This harrowing account of life in a besieged Ukraine reads like a bulletin from the front lines.” —\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Equal parts love story and war story, Daybreak is a profound meditation on idealism and its costs, a vital novel that arrives at a perilous time.\"\u003cb\u003e—Elliot Ackerman, \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of \u003ci\u003e2034: A Novel of the Next World War\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eDaybreak \u003c\/i\u003etakes the reader on a thrilling journey through war-time Ukraine. The plot moves at the speed of a road movie, intensifying every detail of the story, each word spoken by the characters who may well be based on people the author met during his recent trips to Ukraine's front lines. Shocking and totally believable.\"\u003cb\u003e—Andrey Kurkov, author of\u003ci\u003e Grey Bees\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Matt Gallagher has written an important and timely novel, which works as a powerful testimonial to Ezra Pound’s statement that literature is news that remains news. \u003ci\u003eDaybreak \u003c\/i\u003eis history and memory at its most raw, intimate, and brilliant, and is a book to be widely read and discussed.\"\u003cb\u003e—Yiyun Li, author of \u003ci\u003eThe Book of Goose\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“We are living through such a renaissance of veteran’s writing, and Matt Gallagher is one of the very best. \u003ci\u003eDaybreak\u003c\/i\u003e is set in the Russia–Ukraine war, exploring the motivations and fates of Americans who go to fight with Ukraine. It’s an unsparing but empathetic character study — but it’s so much more than that. Reading it brought to mind the masterful work of F. Scott Fitzgerald.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eWar on the Rocks\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e“\u003c\/i\u003eAn absorbing character study of a man purging the ghosts of one war by attempting to fight in another.” —\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“With bold themes of desire, courage, love, forgiveness, and sacrifice, Matt Gallagher has written the first great military-inspired novel of this post-Global War on Terror era.” —\u003cb\u003eBill McCloud, author of \u003ci\u003eWhat Should We Tell Our Children About Vietnam?\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49531364409687,"sku":"9781501177859","price":22.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/daybreak-9781501177859","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}