My Life as a Foreign Country: A Memoir

Biography & Memoir, Historical
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Author: Brian Turner ISBN: 9780393245028
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company Publication: September 15, 2014
Imprint: W. W. Norton & Company Language: English
Author: Brian Turner
ISBN: 9780393245028
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Publication: September 15, 2014
Imprint: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English

"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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"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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