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YOU KNOW WHEN THE MEN ARE GONE; Siobhan Fallon
by Fallon, Siobhan
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0399157204
- ISBN 13
- 9780399157202
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: Amy Einhorn Books / G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2011. First Edition, First Printing. Cloth and boards. Very Fine/Fine. INSCRIBED by the Author on the title page, 8vo, blue quarter cloth over blue boards with gold lettering on spine and front cover, archival mylar-protected photographic dust jacket (unclipped) of a house and grassy hill taken by Michael Dova, 226 pages + [2] About the Author. "A fascinating, rare glimpse into the domesticity of war. This is a wonderful debut." --Jill Ciment Siobhan Fallon is the author of the 2012 PEN Center USA Literary Award in Fiction winner You Know When the Men Are Gone, which is a series of interconnected short stories about military life. She also received the 2012 Indies Choice Honor Award and the Texas Institute of Letters Award for First Fiction. EXCEPTIONAL CONDITION: internally & externally! No remainder markings.
Synopsis
Reminiscent of Raymond Carver and Tim O'Brien, an unforgettable collection of intercollected short stories. In Fort Hood housing, like all army housing, you get used to hearing through the walls... You learn too much. And you learn to move quietly through your own small domain. You also know when the men are gone. No more boots stomping above, no more football games turned up too high, and, best of all, no more front doors slamming before dawn as they trudge out for their early formation, sneakers on metal stairs, cars starting, shouts to the windows above to throw them down their gloves on cold desert mornings. Babies still cry, telephones ring, Saturday morning cartoons screech, but without the men, there is a sense of muted silence, a sense of muted life. There is an army of women waiting for their men to return in Fort Hood, Texas. Through a series of loosely interconnected stories, Siobhan Fallon takes readers onto the base, inside the homes, into the marriages and families-intimate places not seen in newspaper articles or politicians' speeches. When you leave Fort Hood, the sign above the gate warns, You've Survived the War, Now Survive the Homecoming . It is eerily prescient.
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- Bookseller
- Borg Antiquarian
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 4998
- Title
- YOU KNOW WHEN THE MEN ARE GONE; Siobhan Fallon
- Author
- Fallon, Siobhan
- Format/Binding
- Cloth and boards
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, First Printing
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0399157204
- ISBN 13
- 9780399157202
- Publisher
- Amy Einhorn Books / G.P. Putnam's Sons
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2011
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