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      No One Thinks of Greenland

      by John Griesemer
      Published
      May 2001
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      320
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      "Griesemer proceeds to savagely send up the military . . . No One Thinks of Greenland effectively skewers the excesses of the early Cold War mentality." —The Washington Post Book World

      "You'll want to scratch." These spoken words open to us the strange and beguiling world of young Rudy Spruance, forced to join the military due to a mysterious past, and sent for some inexplicable reason to a top-secret military hospital in Greenland. There he meets a wide cast of unusual and colorful characters, outcasts and rejects all; begins to fall for the commanding officer's leggy and strong-willed girlfriend; and slowly uncovers the awful secret behind the portion of the base dubbed "the Wing."

      "What's not to love about this intricately imagined and altogether delightful first novel? . . . No One Thinks of Greenland is that rarest of first-novel achievements: an across-the-board success." —Esquire

      "A powerful look at the madness of war and its aftermath . . . Griesemer has created a poignant novel, with a soupçon of sassy and irreverent humor." —The Denver Post

      "Dramatic . . . mystery spiced with romance." —Chicago Tribune

      "A fever-dream of a novel, destined to become a Cold War classic." —John Sayles, author of To Save the Man

      "We are in the military screw-up novel . . . No One Thinks of Greenland contributes wit and wildness of its own, sharpened by the author's gait, all verve and jolt . . . He hurtles us right in . . . Griesemer has written a novel with a distinctive cutting vision [and] alluring puzzlement." —Richard Eder, The New York Times Book Review

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      May 2002 Picador ISBN 0312283369
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      First Edition May 2001 Picador ISBN 0312274572
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      May 2002 Picador ISBN B00603TY8K
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      Jan 2003 Ulverscroft Large Print ISBN 0708948448
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