Kevin Powers

The Yellow Birds

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In Al Tafar, 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. In the endless days that follow, the two young soldiers do everything to protect each other from the forces that press in on every side.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Little Brown and Company
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. September 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 144mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 356g
• ISBN-13: 9780316219365
• ISBN-10: 0316219363
• Artikelnr.: 35530289

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.