As a Fobbit, Chance Gooding Jr. saw the war through a telescope, the bloody snarl of combat remained at a safe, sanitized distance from his air-conditioned cubicle. And yet, here he was on a FOB at the edge of Baghdad, geographically central to gunfire. To paraphrase the New Testament, he was in the war but he was not of the war. Fobbit by David Abrams | Books in Review. David Abrams served in the U. S. Army for twenty years and was deployed to Iraq in where he worked as a member of a public affairs team. The book jacket of his new novel, Fobbit (Black Cat/Grove Atlantic, pp., $15, paper), does not tell us if he was an officer or a sergeant. If I had to guess, I’d say he was a sergeant and did a job similar to that of his . · David Abrams, author of Fobbit, which was named a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and a finalist for the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction, served in the US Army for twenty years and was deployed to Iraq in as part of a public affairs www.doorway.ru: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Fobbit. By David Abrams. Black Cat. pp. Paperback, $ We are a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for us. David Abrams' book, Fobbit, is perhaps the most comprehensive look yet, through the lens of fiction, at the U.S. involvement in Iraq. Its cover blurbs want us to compare it to Heller's Catch and Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five. For my money, the comparisons are apt, but with some significant differences. Fobbit could have done with more of this. But this is a minor complaint, and in fact I applaud David Abrams for sticking to his vision and writing the satire he wanted to write instead of adding to the crowded shelf of war memoirs. In Fobbit, he has written a very funny book, as funny, disturbing, heartbreaking and ridiculous as war itself.
Hence "fobbit", US forces slang for the inhabitants of "forward operating bases". In David Abrams's words, they "cowered like rabbits in their cubicles, busied themselves with PowerPoint briefings. Fobbit by David Abrams | Books in Review. David Abrams served in the U. S. Army for twenty years and was deployed to Iraq in where he worked as a member of a public affairs team. The book jacket of his new novel, Fobbit (Black Cat/Grove Atlantic, pp., $15, paper), does not tell us if he was an officer or a sergeant. If I had to guess, I’d say he was a sergeant and did a job similar to that of his main character, SSB Chance Gooding, Jr., but I could be wrong. David Abrams' novel Fobbit is set primarily at Triumph, a fictional Forward Operating Base (FOB) in Baghdad, Iraq. Almost always very close to the action, FOBs are secure areas where military operations are planned and front-line soldiers are fed and housed when off duty. FOBs can be low-tech: generally tents or bunkers surrounded by minimal defenses.
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