The Yellow Birds

Kevin , Powers


anglais | 30-04-2013 | 256 pages

9780316219341

Livre de poche


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Couverture / Jaquette

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. In Iraq, 21-year old Private Bartle and 18-year-old Private Murphy cling to life as their platoon launches a bloody battle for the city. The two have been dropped into a war neither is prepared for.

Note biographique

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, as well as Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting, a collection of poetry. He was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University, and holds an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin, where he was a Michener Fellow in Poetry. He served in the US Army in 2004 and 2005 in Iraq, where he was deployed as a machine gunner in Mosul and Tal Afar.

Détails

Code EAN :9780316219341
Auteur(trice): 
Editeur :Little Brown and Company
Date de publication :  30-04-2013
Format :Livre de poche
Langue(s) : anglais
Hauteur :221 mm
Largeur :169 mm
Epaisseur :22 mm
Poids :236 gr
Stock :à commander
Nombre de pages :256