|
Showing 1 - 5 of
5 matches in All Departments
Winner of the National Book Award for Fiction "Redeployment is
hilarious, biting, whipsawing and sad. It's the best thing written
so far on what the war did to people's souls." -Dexter Filkins, The
New York Times Book Review Selected as one of the best books of the
year by The New York Times Book Review, Time, Newsweek, The
Washington Post Book World, Amazon, and more Phil Klay's
Redeployment takes readers to the frontlines of the wars in Iraq
and Afghanistan, asking us to understand what happened there, and
what happened to the soldiers who returned. Interwoven with themes
of brutality and faith, guilt and fear, helplessness and survival,
the characters in these stories struggle to make meaning out of
chaos. In "Redeployment", a soldier who has had to shoot dogs
because they were eating human corpses must learn what it is like
to return to domestic life in suburbia, surrounded by people "who
have no idea where Fallujah is, where three members of your platoon
died." In "After Action Report", a Lance Corporal seeks expiation
for a killing he didn't commit, in order that his best friend will
be unburdened. A Morturary Affairs Marine tells about his
experiences collecting remains-of U.S. and Iraqi soldiers both. A
chaplain sees his understanding of Christianity, and his ability to
provide solace through religion, tested by the actions of a
ferocious Colonel. And in the darkly comic "Money as a Weapons
System", a young Foreign Service Officer is given the absurd task
of helping Iraqis improve their lives by teaching them to play
baseball. These stories reveal the intricate combination of
monotony, bureaucracy, comradeship and violence that make up a
soldier's daily life at war, and the isolation, remorse, and
despair that can accompany a soldier's homecoming. Redeployment has
become a classic in the tradition of war writing. Across nations
and continents, Klay sets in devastating relief the two worlds a
soldier inhabits: one of extremes and one of loss. Written with a
hard-eyed realism and stunning emotional depth, this work marks
Phil Klay as one of the most talented new voices of his generation.
When we read the book of nature, what do we read there? "All things
bright and beautiful, all creatures great and small, all things
wise and wonderful, the Lord God made them all," says a well-known
hymn. This issue of Plough celebrates the creatures of our planet -
plant, animal, and human - and the implications of humankind's
relationship to nature. But if nature can be read as a book that
reveals the wisdom of its Creator, it also reveals things less
lovely than stars and singing birds - a world of desperate
competition for survival, mass extinctions, and deadly viruses. Is
such a world a convincing argument for the Creator's goodness?
Turns out Christians and skeptics alike have been asking such
questions since long before Darwin added a twist. Are we moderns
out of practice at reading the book of nature? And if we forget
how, will we fail to read human nature as well - what rights or
purposes our Creator may have endowed us with? What then is there
to limit the bounds of technological manipulation of humankind?
This issue of Plough explores these and other fascinating questions
about the natural world and our place in it. In this issue: -
Sussex farmer Adam Nicholson evokes centuries of handwork that
shaped the landscape of the Weald. - Gracy Olmstead revisits the
land her forebears farmed in Idaho. - Ian Marcus Corbin tries
walking phoneless to better note the beauty of the natural world. -
Amish farmer John Kempf, a leader in regenerative agriculture,
foresees a healthier future for farming. - Leah Libresco Sargeant
offers a feminist critique of society's war on women's bodies. -
Ivan Bernal Marin visits Panama City's traditional fishermen. -
Maureen Swinger recalls to triumphs of second grade in forest
school. - Edmund Waldstein questions head transplants and the
limits of medical science. - Kelsey Osgood says it's natural to
fear death, and to transcend that fear through faith. - Tim Maendel
lifts the veil on urban beekeeping along the Manhattan skyline.
You'll also find: - An essay by Christian Wiman on the poetry of
doubt and faith - New poems by Alfred Nicol - A profile of Amazon
activist nun Dorothy Stang - An appreciation of Keith Green's songs
- Insights on creation from Blaise Pascal, Julian of Norwich,
Francis of Assisi, Mechthild of Magdeburg, Christopher Smart,
Augustine of Hippo, The Book of Job, and Sadhu Sundar Singh -
Reviews of The Opening of the American Mind, and Kazuo Ishiguro's
Klara and the Sun Plough Quarterly features stories, ideas, and
culture for people eager to put their faith into action. Each issue
brings you in-depth articles, interviews, poetry, book reviews, and
art to help you put Jesus' message into practice and find common
cause with others.
'Powerful' Barack Obama 'Searing' New York Times How do you comfort
a man who has just lost his best friend? How does it feel to see
fear in your wife's eyes? What does it mean to come home? In one of
the most acclaimed and celebrated collections of stories for years,
Redeployment takes readers to the frontlines of the wars in Iraq,
asking us to understand what happened there, and what happened to
the soldiers who returned.
'Expansive, explosive and epic' Marlon James 'A courageous book'
New York Times Book Review A BARACK OBAMA BOOK OF THE YEAR 2020
Neither Mason, a US Special Forces medic, nor Lisette, a foreign
correspondent, has emerged from America's long wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan unscathed. Yet, for them, war still exerts a terrible
draw - the noble calling, the camaraderie, the life-and-death
stakes. Where else in the world can such a person go? All roads
lead to Colombia, where the US has partnered with the local
government to stamp out a vicious civil war and keep the predatory
narco gangs at bay. Mason is ready for the good war, and Lisette is
more than ready to cover it.
|
You may like...
Aladdin
Robin Williams, Scott Weinger, …
Blu-ray disc
R206
Discovery Miles 2 060
|