- Soldiers, Iraq War, 2003-2011, Fiction, Friendship
In this haunting fictional account, an Iraq war veteran contemplates the lives, including his own, devasated by the random violence of war.
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Earnest, grave, contemporary and classical in form.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
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About the book
- Author
- Kevin Powers
- First published
- 2012
- Pages
- 240
- Publisher
- Sceptre / Hodder & Stoughton Ltd., Hodder & Stoughton, Little, Brown & Company
- Editions
- 12
- Language
- English, French
- ISBN
- 9781471346620
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About Kevin Powers · 1980
American fiction writer, poet, and Iraq War veteran.
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