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The Yellow Birds Hardcover - 2012

by Kevin Powers

In Al Tafar, Iraq, 21-year old Private Bartle and 18-year-old Private Murphy cling to life as their platoon launches a bloody battle for the city. In the endless days that follow, the two young soldiers do everything to protect each other from the forces that press in on every side.


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Finalist for the National Book Award, The Yellow Birds is the harrowing story of two young soldiers trying to stay alive in Iraq. "The war tried to kill us in the spring." So begins this powerful account of friendship and loss. In Al Tafar, Iraq, twenty-one-year old Private Bartle and eighteen-year-old Private Murphy cling to life as their platoon launches a bloody battle for the city. Bound together since basic training when Bartle makes a promise to bring Murphy safely home, the two have been dropped into a war neither is prepared for. In the endless days that follow, the two young soldiers do everything to protect each other from the forces that press in on every side: the insurgents, physical fatigue, and the mental stress that comes from constant danger. As reality begins to blur into a hazy nightmare, Murphy becomes increasingly unmoored from the world around him and Bartle takes actions he could never have imagined. With profound emotional insight, especially into the effects of a hidden war on mothers and families at home, The Yellow Birds is a groundbreaking novel that is destined to become a classic.

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  • Title The Yellow Birds
  • Author Kevin Powers
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Little Brown and Company, New York
  • Date 2012-09-11
  • ISBN 9780316219365 / 0316219363
  • Weight 0.79 lbs (0.36 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.3 x 5.7 x 1 in (21.08 x 14.48 x 2.54 cm)
  • Reading level 1010
  • Library of Congress subjects War stories, Soldiers - United States
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2012019435
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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Citations

  • Booklist, 08/01/2012, Page 27
  • BookPage, 09/01/2012, Page 0
  • Entertainment Weekly, 09/07/2012, Page 77
  • Kirkus Bea Big Book Guide, 05/15/2012, Page 23
  • Kirkus Best Fiction, 11/15/2012, Page 35
  • Kirkus Reviews, 05/15/2012, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 06/01/2012, Page 94
  • Men's Journal, 09/01/2012, Page 40
  • New York Times Book Review, 10/07/2012, Page 1
  • New Yorker (The), 11/19/2012, Page 91
  • NY Times Notable Bks of Year, 12/02/2012, Page 25
  • Publishers Weekly, 07/30/2012, Page 34
  • Publishers Weekly Best Books, 11/05/2012, Page 26
  • Shelf Awareness, 12/28/2012, Page 0
  • SLJ Best Adult Bks 4 Teens, 12/01/2012, Page 37

About the author

Kevin Powers is the author of The Yellow Birds, which won the PEN/Hemingway 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. He was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University, and holds an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin, where he was a Michener Fellow in Poetry. He served in the US Army in 2004 and 2005 in Iraq, where he was deployed as a machine gunner in Mosul and Tal Afar.
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