Fire and Forget: Short Stories from the Long War - Softcover

Gallagher, Matt; Scranton, Roy; McCann, Colum; Fallon, Siobhan; Buzzell, Colby; Turner, Brian

 
9780306821769: Fire and Forget: Short Stories from the Long War
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0306821761 ISBN 13: 9780306821769
Verlag: Da Capo Press Inc, 2013

Inhaltsangabe

Fire and Forget includes the title story from Redeployment by Phil Klay, 2014 National Book Award Winner in FictionThese stories aren't pretty and they aren't for the faint of heart. They are realistic, haunting and shocking. And they are all unforgettable. Television reports, movies, newspapers and blogs about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have offered images of the fighting there. But this collection offers voices- powerful voices, telling the kind of truth that only fiction can offer.What makes the collection so remarkable is that all of these stories are written by those who were there, or waited for them at home. The anthology, which features a Foreword by National Book Award winner Colum McCann, includes the best voices of the wars' generation: award-winning author Phil Klay's Redeployment" Brian Turner, whose poem Hurt Locker" was the movie's inspiration Colby Buzzell, whose book My War resonates with countless veterans Siobhan Fallon, whose book You Know When the Men Are Gone echoes the joy and pain of the spouses left behind Matt Gallagher, whose book Kaboom captures the hilarity and horror of the modern military experience and ten others.

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Contributors include:Matt Gallagher,co-editor of Fire and Forget and author of KaboomRoy Scranton,co-editor of Fire and ForgetColum McCann,National Book Award winner and best-selling author of Let the Great World SpinSiobhan Fallon,author of You Know When the Men Are GoneColby Buzzell,author of My WarBrian Turner,author of Here, Bullet ( Hurt Locker")and nine others.

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Verlag
Da Capo Press Inc
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0306821761
ISBN 13 
9780306821769
Einband
Tapa blanda
Anzahl der Seiten
256
Herausgeber
Turner Brian, Buzzell Colby, McCann Colum, Gallagher Matt, Scranton Roy, Fallon Siobhan
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