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Cover of Dust to Dust- A Memoir

Dust to Dust- A Memoir

✍ Scribed by Busch, Benjamin


Book ID
107166185
Publisher
HarperCollins US
Year
2012
Tongue
English
Weight
8 MB
Category
Fiction

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✦ Synopsis


"A wonderful book, original in concept and stunningly written."

--Ward Just

"Elegiac, funny, wistful, deep, and wonderfully human, Dust to Dust moved me to laughter and tears, sometimes simultaneously."

--Karl Marlantes, bestselling author of Matterhorn and What It Is Like to Go to War

Tim O'Brien meets Annie Dillard in this remarkable memoir by debut author Benjamin Busch. Much more than a war memoir, Dust to Dust brilliantly explores the passage through a lifetime--a moving meditation on life and death, the adventures of childhood and revelations of adulthood. Seemingly ordinary things take on a breathtaking radiance when examined by this decorated Marine officer--veteran of two combat tours in Iraq--actor on the hit HBO series The Wire , and son of acclaimed novelist Frederick Busch. Above all, Benjamin Busch is a truly extraordinary new literary talent as evidenced by his exemplary debut,...


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