**"A near-miraculous, brilliant debut." --George Saunders, Man Booker Prize-winning author of _Lincoln in the Bardo_** **"In one exquisitely crafted story after the next, Will Mackin maps the surreal psychological terrain of soldiers in a perpetual war." --Phil Klay, National Book Award-winning au
Bring Out the Dog: Stories
โ Scribed by Mackin, Will
- Book ID
- 109576056
- Publisher
- Random House Publishing Group
- Year
- 2018
- Tongue
- en-US
- Weight
- 695 KB
- Category
- Fiction
- ISBN-13
- 9780812995640
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โฆ Synopsis
"A near-miraculous, brilliant debut." --George Saunders, Man Booker Prize-winning author of Lincoln in the Bardo
"In one exquisitely crafted story after the next, Will Mackin maps the surreal psychological terrain of soldiers in a perpetual war." --Phil Klay, National Book Award-winning author of Redeployment
The eleven stories in Will Mackin's mesmerizing debut collection draw from his many deployments with a special operations task force in Iraq and Afghanistan. They began as notes he jotted on the inside of his forearm in grease pencil and, later, as bullet points on the torn-off flap of an MRE kit. Whenever possible he incorporated those notes into his journals. Years later, he used those journals to write this book.
Together, the stories in Bring Out the Dog offer a remarkable portrait of the absurdity and poetry that define life in the most elite, clandestine circles of modern warfare. It is a world of...
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