{"id":26491,"date":"2012-08-11T13:16:16","date_gmt":"2012-08-11T03:16:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.booktopia.com.au\/?p=26491"},"modified":"2016-03-01T09:48:23","modified_gmt":"2016-02-29T23:48:23","slug":"big-debut-the-yellow-birds-by-kevin-powers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/2012\/08\/11\/big-debut-the-yellow-birds-by-kevin-powers\/","title":{"rendered":"BIG D\u00c9BUT: The Yellow Birds by Kevin Powers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>An unforgettable depiction of the psychological impact of war, by a young Iraq veteran and poet, The Yellow Birds<\/em><\/a> is already being hailed as a modern classic.<\/p>\n

“The war tried to kill us in the spring,” begins this breathtaking account of friendship and loss. In Al Tafar, Iraq, twenty-one-year old Private Bartle and eighteen-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: the insurgents, physical fatigue, and the mental stress that comes from constant danger.<\/p>\n

Bound together since basic training when their tough-as-nails Sergeant ordered Bartle to watch over Murphy, the two have been dropped into a war neither is prepared for. As reality begins to blur into a hazy nightmare, Murphy becomes increasingly unmoored from the world around him and Bartle takes impossible actions.<\/p>\n

With profound emotional insight, especially into the effects of a hidden war on mothers and families at home, THE YELLOW BIRDS<\/a> is a groundbreaking novel about the costs of war that is destined to become a classic.<\/p>\n

Click here or order The Yellow Birds<\/em> from Booktopia,
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR:<\/p>\n

KEVIN POWERS 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. This is his first novel.<\/p>\n

A Selection of Fine Novels Set on the Front Lines or in the Shadows of War:\u00a0The Middle Parts of Fortune\u00a0<\/a>,\u00a0A Farewell To Arms\u00a0<\/a>,\u00a0The Thin Red Line<\/a>, Parade’s End<\/a>, All Quiet on the Western Front<\/a>, Matterhorn<\/a>, Regeneration<\/a>, The Naked and the Dead<\/a>,\u00a0Catch 22<\/a>, Slaughterhouse-Five<\/a>, Under Fire<\/a>…
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An unforgettable depiction of the psychological impact of war, by a young Iraq veteran and poet, The Yellow Birds is already being hailed as a modern classic. “The war tried to kill us in the spring,” begins this breathtaking account of friendship and loss. In Al Tafar, Iraq, twenty-one-year old Private Bartle and eighteen-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: the insurgents, physical fatigue, and the mental stress that comes from constant danger. Bound together since basic training when their tough-as-nails Sergeant ordered Bartle to watch over Murphy, the two have been dropped into a war neither is prepared for. As reality begins to blur into a hazy nightmare, Murphy becomes increasingly unmoored from the world around him and Bartle takes impossible actions. With profound emotional insight, especially into the effects of a hidden war on mothers and families at home, THE YELLOW BIRDS is a groundbreaking novel about the costs of war that is destined to become a classic. Click here or order The Yellow…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3055,6110],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26491"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57153,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26491\/revisions\/57153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.booktopia.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}