Minimal Damage - Stories of Veterans

Informationen zum Autor H. Lee Barnes is a former Green Beret and Vietnam War veteran who has worked as a deputy sheriff, private investigator, and casino dealer. He currently teaches English and creative writing at the Community College of Southern Nevada in Las Vegas. He is the author of three short story collections, another novel, a memoir, and a nonfiction book about casino workers. His short fiction has received the Willamette Fiction Award and the Arizona Authors Association Fiction Award, and in 2009, he was elected to the Nevada Writers Hall of Fame. Klappentext Contains seven stories and a novella that depict veterans of several wars in search of dignity and purpose in a civilian life that has no need for men who were soldiers. With emotion, humour, and clarity, Barnes creates characters who show us what it is to live with the trauma of having experienced combat. The fractured souls and twisted lives of these men remind us that war's ultimate damage extends far beyond the battlefield. Zusammenfassung At home after their wars! ex-soldiers fight inner battles

Product details

• Authors: H Lee Barnes, H. Lee Barnes
• Publisher: University of Nevada Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.03.2013
• EAN: 9780874179118
• ISBN: 978-0-87417-911-8
• No. of pages: 200
• Series: Western Literature; Western Literature; Western Literature and Fiction; Battle Born
• Subject: Fiction > Narrative literature