Kevin Powers

A Shout in the Ruins

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A novel that spans one hundred years and is set in Virginia during the Civil War and a century beyond explores the brutal legacy of violence and exploitation in American society as it examines the fates of the inhabitants of Beauvais Plantation and their descendants.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Little Brown and Company
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Altersempfehlung: 8 bis 12 Jahre
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Mai 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 211mm x 142mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 240g
• ISBN-13: 9780316556491
• ISBN-10: 0316556491
• Artikelnr.: 54011240

Autorenporträt

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.

Rezensionen

An American Civil War epic [which] confirms Powers as a significant talent. Andrew Motion Observer