false 2381953 5 The year is 1978. Ares Ramirez, age 12, lives with his mother, Laurel, and his younger brother Malcolm in a trailer at the edge of the Salton Sea, an unintentionally man-made body of water in the middle of the Southern California desert. It is a desolate, forgotten place, whose inhabitants thrive amidst seemingly impossible circumstances. <P>Where birds fly by day across the desert sky, by night government fighter planes and helicopters make training runs using live ammunition, and an anonymous dead body floats in from the sea. These events inspire Ares, on the cusp of his adolescence, to enact elaborate fantasies of mortal combat. His membership in a troubled family marks Ares as a casualty of a different kind of war. Malcolm, age 7, is mentally handicapped, and his mother chooses not to do anything about it. <P>Ares' struggle with the burden of responsibility -- to himself and to others -- draws him into a world of drugs, violence, and sex that he is not prepared for, launching him into a very personal battle for his own identity, one that has a lethal outcome. 2388965 29 4 2008 The God of War: A Novel total:208|5:38|4:98|3:59|2:11|1:2| 208 783 424 69 5 1 false false Tue Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 05 10:02:22 -0700 2008 Sat Jul 05 10:38:06 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 1 false false Thu Feb 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 10:37:35 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 10:38:05 -0800 2009 4 0 false false Fri Jun 05 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 20 07:37:14 -0700 2009 Sat Jun 20 07:38:07 -0700 2009
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Okay first off, I can't hold back any longer: I LOVED this book!!! I was not sure I would, when I looked at the cover and read the title but, "don't judge a book by its cover"---trust me on this one, and the story is not about war either.

The God of War, ...more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Jul 06 09:39:22 -0700 2009 Mon Jul 06 09:55:32 -0700 2009 This family, living on the...more...]]> 0 0 false false Thu Feb 05 09:56:33 -0800 2009 Thu Feb 05 09:56:33 -0800 2009 Most critics were drawn in by this sad and lovely tale of a lonely boy weighed down by burdens even an adult would find difficult to bear. Silver's characters are carefully rendered and sympathetic, her prose is compulsively readable, and her portrayal of Malcolm's autism is accurate and meaningful....

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I actually did like this book a good deal, though I had many questions in my mind while reading it and still at the end, th...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue May 27 10:21:41 -0700 2008 Tue May 27 10:27:15 -0700 2008 By ELLA TAYLOR

On the face of things, Ares Ramirez, the 12-year-old at the broken heart of Marisa Silver’s elegiac new novel, The God of War, is working through a normal adolescence. His body is changing, his soul is torn between ...more...]]> 4 0 false false Sun May 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu May 07 22:00:40 -0700 2009 Mon May 11 18:23:03 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Jun 09 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 02 06:19:30 -0700 2009 Tue Jun 09 12:35:11 -0700 2009 He is haunted with guilt over a past accident, challenged by bullies,
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