The Resource Redeployment, Phil Klay
Redeployment, Phil Klay
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The item Redeployment, Phil Klay represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Williamsburg Regional Library.
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- Summary
- "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 is poised to 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"--
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 291 pages
- Contents
-
- Psychological operations
- War stories
- Unless it's a sucking chest wound
- Ten kliks south
- Redeployment
- FRAGO
- After Action Report
- Bodies
- OIF
- Money as a weapons system
- In Vietnam they had whores
- Prayer in the furnace
- Isbn
- 9781594204999
- Label
- Redeployment
- Title
- Redeployment
- Statement of responsibility
- Phil Klay
- Subject
-
- trueViolence
- War fiction
- trueSoldiers
- Soldiers -- United States
- Soldiers -- United States -- Fiction
- trueWar
- Afghan War, 2001- -- Fiction
- trueAfghan War, 2001-2021
- trueBoredom
- trueDeath
- trueFriendship
- trueGuilt
- trueHomecomings
- trueIraq War, 2003-2011
- Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Fiction
- trueLoss
- Loss (Psychology)
- Short stories
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "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 is poised to 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"--
- Award
-
- National Book Critics Circle Award: John Leonard Prize, 2014.
- National Book Award for Fiction, 2014.
- New York Times Notable Book, 2014
- W. Y. Boyd Literary Award, 2015.
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
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- 10276000
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Klay, Phil
- Dewey number
- 813/.6
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PS3611.L4423
- LC item number
- A6 2014
- Literary form
- short stories
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Afghan War, 2001-
- Iraq War, 2003-2011
- Soldiers
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- Redeployment, Phil Klay
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Psychological operations
- War stories
- Unless it's a sucking chest wound
- Ten kliks south
- Redeployment
- FRAGO
- After Action Report
- Bodies
- OIF
- Money as a weapons system
- In Vietnam they had whores
- Prayer in the furnace
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 291 pages
- Isbn
- 9781594204999
- Isbn Type
- (hardback)
- Lccn
- 2013028125
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- System control number
-
- 852221707
- (OCoLC)852221707
- Label
- Redeployment, Phil Klay
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
-
- Psychological operations
- War stories
- Unless it's a sucking chest wound
- Ten kliks south
- Redeployment
- FRAGO
- After Action Report
- Bodies
- OIF
- Money as a weapons system
- In Vietnam they had whores
- Prayer in the furnace
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- 291 pages
- Isbn
- 9781594204999
- Isbn Type
- (hardback)
- Lccn
- 2013028125
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- System control number
-
- 852221707
- (OCoLC)852221707
Subject
- trueViolence
- War fiction
- trueSoldiers
- Soldiers -- United States
- Soldiers -- United States -- Fiction
- trueWar
- Afghan War, 2001- -- Fiction
- trueAfghan War, 2001-2021
- trueBoredom
- trueDeath
- trueFriendship
- trueGuilt
- trueHomecomings
- trueIraq War, 2003-2011
- Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Fiction
- trueLoss
- Loss (Psychology)
- Short stories
Genre
Member of
Included in
- trueNew York Times Notable Books - Fiction and Poetry: 2014
- trueNational Book Critics Circle Award: John Leonard Prize
- trueNational Book Awards: Fiction
- trueW. Y. Boyd Literary Award
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