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My Life As a Foreign Country

Name: My Life As a Foreign Country
ISBN: 9780393351842

A Memoir

Brian Turner

WW Norton · Print & ebook · October 6, 2015

Reading lane: Personal Memoirs

"Brilliant and beautiful.

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War Afterimage

A spare memoir title with the gravity and afterimage of war experience.

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memoir in a serious, literary register
war memory with room for conversation

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reflective, sustained prose
more reckoning than revelation

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Authors: Brian Turner
Publisher: WW Norton
Published: October 6, 2015
Format: Print & ebook
Theme: Personal Memoirs
Reading lane: Personal Memoirs

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About This Book

"Brilliant and beautiful. It surely ranks with the best war memoirs I’ve ever encountered." —Tim O’Brien, author of The Things They Carried An award-winning poet and former infantry team leader in Iraq, Brian Turner combines his devastating recollections as “Sergeant Turner” with his visions of the experiences of generations of warriors in his family—and even those of the enemy—in a work of profound understanding and shocking beauty.