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My Life As a Foreign Country by Brian Turner

My Life As a Foreign Country

A Memoir

Brian Turner

WW Norton · Print & ebook · October 6, 2015

"Brilliant and beautiful.

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Who it’s for
A spare memoir title with the gravity and afterimage of war experience.
Genres
Iraq War (2003-2011), Personal Memoirs, Military Lives
Published
WW Norton, October 6, 2015

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About this book

"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.

War Afterimage

A spare memoir title with the gravity and afterimage of war experience.

Come here for

  • memoir in a serious, literary register
  • war memory with room for conversation

Expect

  • reflective, sustained prose
  • more reckoning than revelation

Where it sits

Military Lives74%
Iraq War (2003-2011)52%
Personal Memoirs46%

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Publisher categories

  • Personal Memoirs
Authors
Brian Turner
Publisher
WW Norton
Published
October 6, 2015
Format
Print & ebook
Reading lane
Personal Memoirs