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| Title | : | These Heroic, Happy Dead: Stories |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.46 (589 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1101906812 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 192 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-11-16 |
| Language | : | English |
In “To the Lake,” a troubled ex-soldier drives into a New England snowstorm in hopes of reaching his estranged girlfriend, yet ends up instead at the home of another damaged veteran after, among other events, his truck loses control and crashes. (Apr.)\n . Hope is hard to come by in this collection, but the stories will linger with the reader. Across the ocean, “A Beautiful Country” finds a former commando traveling the vast expanse of Afghanistan for work as an independent military contractor, and “Total Solar” concerns a journalist
Pitch Perfect Constant Reader I am old enough to remember when ethnic voices became significant in American writing. The voices Luke Mogelson assumes in most of these remarkable stories are soldiers-talking-to-soldiers voices, a stripped-down argot that defies conventional sentence structure and results in surprising beauty. He is a writer to be envied.. happy dead. Some of these stories are hard to read, but we must read them. The author writes authentically and tells the stories of those whohave fought in our recent wars and the toll it has taken on their lives, and their families. We, as a nation, did not prepare for the careof the heroic, happy dead.. "This is an impressive book from a terrific new writer" according to Karen L F. Mogelson's stories are important: the effect of war on all the people involved is something we need to be reminded of these stories are told from many perspectives, in many situations. They are extremely readable, if at times hard to take in. This is an impressive book from a terrific new writer.
A shady contractor job gone wrong in “A Beautiful Country” is a news item for a reporter in “Total Solar,” as he navigates the surreal world of occupied Kabul. Shifting in time and narrative perspective—from the home front to active combat, between experienced leaders, flawed infantrymen, a mother, a child, an Afghan-American translator, and a foreign correspondent--these stories offer a multifaceted examination of the unexpected costs of war.
He lives in Paris. Luke Mogelson is a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine and a recipient of the National Magazine Award in 2014. . His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Hudson Review, The Missouri Review, and The Kenyon Review
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