Kevin powers yellow birds biography book review

Kevin Powers’ book, The Yellow Birds, hit the literary world last year with the force of an insurgent car bomb. Powers, who served in Iraq as a machine gunner according to his book flap bio, was a writer who had been there, done that, and wrote the book about it.

The public could finally learn some truth about the Iraq War through Powers’ beautiful prose. This book exposes the horrible cruelty of the war and the pathetic state our soldiers are reduced to when they come home, alone, just as they did from Vietnam.

Alan Cheuse reviews Kevin Powers' first novel The Yellow Birds, which is based on his real life experience serving in Iraq.

When the protagonist’s brutal, horrible secret is revealed, when we learn what he really did in the war, we can all say to ourselves, “See? I knew they were all doing stuff like that over there!”

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It was a finalist for the National Book Awards, and one of the The New York Times Ten Best Books of I feel conflicted about it.

The Yellow Birds is.

Alan Cheuse reviews Kevin Powers' first novel The Yellow Birds, which is based on his real life experience serving in Iraq.

First, it turns readers into active participants, enlisting them in a sense as co-authors who fit together the many memories and guess at what.

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First, it turns readers into active participants, enlisting them in a sense as co-authors who fit together the many memories and guess at what.

I had you there for a minute, didn’t I? What I just did was give an impression of the literary world’s reaction to Powers’ book. This book has been praised, fawned over and proclaimed a classic. The literary elite, who don&#;t have a clue what war