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The Yellow Birds By Kevin Powers (Paperback, 2013)
WINNER OF THE GUARDIAN FIRST BOOK AWARD 2012WINNER OF THE HEMINGWAYPEN AWARD 2012NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTAN AMAZON EDITOR'S PICK BEST BOOKS OF 2012 A NEW YORK TIMES TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEARA TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARAN INDEPENDENT BOOK OF THE YEAR A TLS BOOK OF THE YEARAN EVENING STANDARD BOOK OF THE YEARA SUNDAY EXPRESS BOOK OF THE YEARA GUARDIAN BOOK OF THE YEAR A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK OF THE YEARA SCOTSMAN BOOK OF THE YEARA SUNDAY HERALD BOOK OF THE YEARAN IRISH TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR An unforgettable depiction of the psychological impact of war by a young Iraq veteran and poet THE YELLOW BIRDS is already being hailed as a modern classicEverywhere John looks he sees MurphHe flinches when cars drive past His fingers clasp around the rifle he hasn't held for months Wide-eyed strangers
praise him as a hero but he can feel himself disappearing Back home after a year in Iraq memories swarm around him bodies burning in the crisp morning air Sunlight falling through branches; bullets kicking up dust; ripples on a pond wavering like plucked strings The promise he made to a young man's mother that her son would be brought home safelyWith THE YELLOW BIRDS poet and veteran Kevin Powers has composed an unforgettable account of friendship and loss It vividly captures the desperation and brutality of war and its terrible after-effects But it is also a story of love of great courage and of extraordinary human survival Written with profound emotional insight especially into the effects of a hidden war on families at home THE YELLOW BIRDS is one of the most haunting true and powerful
novels of our time'THE YELLOW BIRDS is the All Quiet on the Western Front of America's Arab Wars'(Tom Wolfe author of The Bonfire of the Vanities )'Kevin Powers has conjured a poetic and devastating account of war's effect on the individual'(Damian Lewis star of Homeland and Band of Brothers )'Inexplicably beautiful'(Ann Patchett Orange Prize-winning author of Bel Canto and State of Wonder)
praise him as a hero but he can feel himself disappearing Back home after a year in Iraq memories swarm around him bodies burning in the crisp morning air Sunlight falling through branches; bullets kicking up dust; ripples on a pond wavering like plucked strings The promise he made to a young man's mother that her son would be brought home safelyWith THE YELLOW BIRDS poet and veteran Kevin Powers has composed an unforgettable account of friendship and loss It vividly captures the desperation and brutality of war and its terrible after-effects But it is also a story of love of great courage and of extraordinary human survival Written with profound emotional insight especially into the effects of a hidden war on families at home THE YELLOW BIRDS is one of the most haunting true and powerful
novels of our time'THE YELLOW BIRDS is the All Quiet on the Western Front of America's Arab Wars'(Tom Wolfe author of The Bonfire of the Vanities )'Kevin Powers has conjured a poetic and devastating account of war's effect on the individual'(Damian Lewis star of Homeland and Band of Brothers )'Inexplicably beautiful'(Ann Patchett Orange Prize-winning author of Bel Canto and State of Wonder)
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