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My Life As a Foreign Country
A Memoir
Brian Turner
WW Norton · Print & ebook · October 6, 2015
Reading lane: Personal Memoirs
"Brilliant and beautiful.
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Why This Clicks
War Afterimage
A spare memoir title with the gravity and afterimage of war experience.
Come here for
- memoir in a serious, literary register
- war memory with room for conversation
Expect
- reflective, sustained prose
- more reckoning than revelation
Book Details
- Authors
- Brian Turner
- Publisher
- WW Norton
- Published
- October 6, 2015
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Personal Memoirs
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- 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.
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