Emergency Sex (And Other Desperate Measures): True Stories from a War Zone
of Kenneth Cain, Andrew Thomson, Heidi Postlewait
Description
In the early 1990s three young people attracted to the ambitious global peacekeeping work of the UN cross paths in Cambodia. Andrew strives for a better world through his life-saving work as a doctor. Heidi, a social worker, is in need of a challenge and a paycheck, and Ken is fresh from Harvard and brimful of idealism. As their stories interweave through the years, from Rwanda, Bosnia and Somalia to Haiti, the trio reveal a world of witnessed atrocities, primal fear, desperate loneliness and base desires. They fend off terror and futility with revelry, humour and sex; ask hard questions about the world order America has created, the true power of the UN, and whether there is any possibility for change.This is a startling celebration of the power of humour and friendship, of the limits of human compassion, and the need for a warm body and a cold beer during a Condition Echo lockdown. A book that shows the human cost of global politics and the tragic truth that wars are much more avoidable than our governments would ever admit. A brilliant, provocatively funny and fast moving book.
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- Format Paperback
- Pages 352 pages
- Publisher Ebury Press
- Publication Date February 3rd 2005
- First Publication 06/01/04
- Language English
- ISBN 9780091901646
- Edition Not informed
- Category Non-Fiction
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