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The Yellow Birds: A Novel
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The Yellow Birds: A Novel Hardcover - 2012

by Powers, Kevin

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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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  • Title The Yellow Birds: A Novel
  • Author Powers, Kevin
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Condition UsedGood
  • Pages 240
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Little Brown and Company, New York
  • Date 2012-09-11
  • Features Dust Cover, Price on Product - Canadian
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 31UE340011E4_ns
  • 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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  • 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, 07/15/2012, Page 0
  • Library Journal, 04/15/2012, Page 58
  • Men's Journal, 09/01/2012, Page 40
  • New York Times Book Review, 10/07/2012, Page 1
  • New Yorker (The), 10/14/2012, Page 22
  • 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, 09/14/2012, 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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