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Fire and Forget : Short Stories From the Long War by Matt Gallagher; Roy Scranton; Colum McCann; David Abrams; Colby Buzzell; Siobhan Fallon; Ted Janis; Mariette Kalinowski; Phil Klay; Gavin Kovite; Perry O'Brien; Roman Skaskiw; Jacob Siegel; Andrew Slater; Brian Turner; Brian Van Reet is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is Fire and Forget : Short Stories From the Long War about?

Fire and Forget includes the title story from Redeployment by Phil Klay, 2014 National Book Award Winner in Fiction These stories aren't pretty and they aren't for the faint of heart. They are realistic, haunting and shocking. And they are all unforgettable. Television reports, movies, newspapers and blogs about the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have offered images of the fighting there. But this collection offers voices -- powerful voices, telling the kind of truth that only fiction can offer. What makes the collection so remarkable is that all of these stories are written by those who were there, or waited for them at home. The anthology, which features a Foreword by National Book Award winner Colum McCann, includes the best voices of the wars'generation: award-winning author Phil Klay's'Redeployment'Brian Turner, whose poem'Hurt Locker'was the movie's inspiration; Colby Buzzell, whose book My War resonates with countless veterans; Siobhan Fallon, whose book You Know When the Men Are Gone echoes the joy and pain of the spouses left behind; Matt Gallagher, whose book Kaboom captures the hilarity and horror of the modern military experience; and ten others.

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Author

Matt Gallagher; Roy Scranton; Colum McCann; David Abrams; Colby Buzzell; Siobhan Fallon; Ted Janis; Mariette Kalinowski; Phil Klay; Gavin Kovite; Perry O'Brien; Roman Skaskiw; Jacob Siegel; Andrew Slater; Brian Turner; Brian Van Reet

Publisher

Da Capo Press, Incorporated

Published

2013

Language

EN

ISBN

9780306821769

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Short Stories, Literary Fiction, Fiction

Rating

3.92 / 5 (379 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14