Longer We Were There - A Memoir of a Part-Time Soldier

Informationen zum Autor STEVEN MOORE was born and raised in southeast Iowa and served seven years in the Iowa National Guard. His essays have appeared or are forthcoming in the Kenyon Review online, the Georgia Review , N orth American Review , Ninth Letter , and BOAAT , among other publications. He and his wife live in Corvallis, Oregon. Klappentext Follows a part-time soldier's experience over seven years in the Iowa Army National Guard. He bounces between college, army training, disaster relief, civilian jobs, and deployment in Afghanistan. His stories are about having one foot on each side of the civilian-military divide, and the difficulty of describing one side to those on the other. Zusammenfassung The war in Afghanistan creates an urgency for telling stories—between soldiers, as they hand off missions to each other, and between soldiers and civilians, trying to explain what is going on—while also denying a lot of the context that is important for the telling of that story.

Product details

• Authors: Steven Moore
• Assisted by: Supriya Bhatnagar (Editor)
• Publisher: The University of Georgia Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2019
• EAN: 9780820355665
• ISBN: 978-0-8203-5566-5
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Association of Writers and Wri; Association of Writers and Writing Programs Award for Creative Nonfiction Series; The Sue William Silverman Priz
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Biographies, autobiographies; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration