![]() ![]() Tim O'Connell, who edited Cherry for Knopf, said that the book was timely as it tackled the opioid epidemic, the disillusionment with the Iraq war and vets returning home with PTSD. The book is dry, crass, and the kind of funny where you laugh and then get sad about laughing. ![]() He'd never thought about writing a book before, and spent hours at the typewriters in the law library working on the book after teaching a continuing education class in prison. Walker was written about in a 2013 BuzzFeed profile, which attracted the attention of Matthew Johnson at Tyrant Books, who persuaded him into writing a book. Army medic in Iraq who returns to Cleveland, gets addicted to heroin and ends up a convicted bank robber. ![]() "I just had to take people's word for it," he says.Ĭherry is a semi-autobiographical novel that follows Walker's path as a decorated U.S. People explained to him the Russos had just directed the highest grossing movie of all time, and that this was a big deal. Walker was in prison as the movie was being sold and hadn't seen any of the Russo brothers' Marvel movies. Not that any of this meant much to Nico Walker, who wrote the book the movie Cherry is based on. It's directed by Joe and Anthony Russo - their first since directing Avengers: Endgame. The new movie Cherry stars Tom Holland - you might know him as Spider-Man from the Marvel movies. Tom Holland in Cherry, adapted from Nico Walker's book. ![]()
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