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Tango01 | 22 Jun 2020 10:44 p.m. PST |
"Kevin Powers was born and raised in Richmond. He enlisted in the Army National Guard when he was 17, eventually carrying a machine gun in northern Iraq during a yearlong tour of duty. The first big decision he made after coming home -- to go to college -- was practical; Powers graduated Virginia Commonwealth University in 2008 with a bachelor's degree in English. The next decision was inspired; he left home again, this time enrolling at the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas, achieving an MFA in poetry and turning early drafts of a story about Iraq into the novel that launched his writing career. War and homecoming have formed the center of his work, and the work begins with "The Yellow Birds" (Little, Brown, 2012). This is the story of Private John Bartle, who survives a deployment to Iraq only to return home haunted by an experience he can't explain to others, much less understand himself. Enormously successful upon publication, Powers followed up his debut novel with a collection of war poetry entitled "Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting" (Little, Brown, 2014). In his latest book, the novel "A Shout in the Ruins" (Little, Brown, 2018), Powers returns to Richmond to tell of a murdered plantation owner, alternating between the Civil War-era 1860s and the Civil Rights-era 1950s to weave together the lives of people separated by circumstances but connected through time by blood and suffering…" More here link Amicalement Armand |
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