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The yellow birds is harrowing, inexplicably beautiful, and utterly, urgently necessary. The yellow birds is breathtaking good, profoundly insightful and written with an incredible amount of emotional precision. The duo is deployed to iraq, and the novel alternates between the mens war zone experiences and bartle. Finalist for the national book award, the yellow birds is the harrowing story of two young soldiers trying to stay alive in iraq.
Read or listen to an excerpt from the yellow birds by kevin powers, a 2012 national book award fiction finalist note. Kevin powers is the author of the yellow birds, which won the penhemingway award, the guardian first book award, and was a national book award finalist, as well as letter composed during a lull in the fighting, a collection of poetry. Now he has channeled his experience into the yellow birds, a first novel as compact and powerful as a footlocker full of ammo. Two young soldiers, bartle 21 and murph 18 navigate the terrors of the iraq war under the command of the older, troubled sergeant sterling. If you cant hear the audio, try the player at the bottom of the page. The yellow birds by kevin powers 2012, cd, unabridged for. The book was published in multiple languages including english, consists of 226 pages and is available in hardcover format.
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