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Download # The Yellow Birds: A Novel PDF by * Kevin Powers eBook or Kindle ePUB Online free. The Yellow Birds: A Novel War breeds tragedies experienced and carried with no easy answers to the why-questions Amazon Customer:Wooster, Ohio Two young men meet [by chance - or is it]? Bound by what began as a flippant promise to a worried mother, two soldiers face war up front and personal. One feels bound by his promise - now more real than planned. The other sees only companionship through war's hellish efforts to survive. No balck and white boxes of right and wrong exist. "Why-questions" arise repeatedly with no ans
| Title | : | The Yellow Birds: A Novel |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.54 (903 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0316219347 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-08-20 |
| Language | : | English |
A novel written by a veteran of the war in Iraq, The Yellow Birds is the harrowing story of two young soldiers trying to stay alive."The war tried to kill us in the spring." So begins this powerful account of friendship and loss. In Al Tafar, Iraq, twenty-one-year old Private Bartle and eighteen-year-old Private Murphy cling to life as their platoon launches a bloody battle for the city. Bound together since basic training when Bartle makes a promise to bring Murphy safely home, the two have been dropped into a war neither is prepared for.In the endless days that follow, the two young soldiers do everything to prot
Kevin Powers is the author of The Yellow Birds, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Guardian First Book Award, and was a National Book Award Finalist. He was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University, and holds an MFA from the University of Texas at Au
Compact and emotionally intense, The Yellow Birds joins a maturing and impressive collection of Iraq War literature--both memoir and fiction--that includes Brian Castner's The Long Walk and Ben Fountain's Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk. --Jon Foro. Bartle, bound by a promise to Murphy's mother to guide him home safely, takes the young private under his wing as they move through the bloody conflict that "rubbed its thousand ribs against the ground in prayer." Powers, an Iraq veteran, eyes the casual violence of war with a poet's precision but without romanticism, moving confidently between scenes of blunt atrocity and almost hallucinatory detachment with Hemingway-like
War breeds tragedies experienced and carried with no easy answers to the why-questions Amazon Customer:Wooster, Ohio Two young men meet [by chance - or is it]? Bound by what began as a flippant promise to a worried mother, two soldiers face war up front and personal. One feels bound by his promise - now more real than planned. The other sees only companionship through war's hellish efforts to survive. No balck and white boxes of right and wrong exist. "Why-questions" arise repeatedly with no answers in sight - ever. Do ethics stretch? Are consequences real. What is the price of it all in war and coming home?Sor sime, is "home" ever "home" again? These questions remain unavoidable for. Amazon Customer said A Must Read. Kevin Powers has written a book that is a must read for our times. It should be used in the high school classroom to discuss twentieth century American literature, US World History, American Foreign Policy, and what it means to be a person of conscience.. christopher burnham said Pretty well written. This book is sad and touching. It really well describes change and loss and eventual acceptance of loss. About war, but not about war if you get what I mean.
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