- American Personal narratives, Nonfiction, Iraq War, 2003-2011, History
Skateboarding party animal Colby Buzzell traded a dead-end future for the army-and ended up a machine gunner in Iraq. To make sense of the bloody insanity surrounding him, he started a blog about the war and how it differed from the government's official version.
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Contemporary, classical in form, earnest and relentless.
- contemporarynostalgic
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
- cooloverwhelming
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About the book
- Author
- Colby Buzzell
- First published
- 2005
- Pages
- 363
- Publisher
- Penguin Group, Penguin USA, Inc., Putnam Adult
- Editions
- 3
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780425211366
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