You Know When the Men Are Gone

Author: Fallon, Siobhan

Color: Multicolor

Edition: Reprint

Number Of Pages: 256

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“Gripping, straight-up, no-nonsense stories about American soldiers and their families. . . simple, tough, and true.”—The New York Times“Prose that's brave and honest.”—People“Terrific. . . and terrifically illuminating.”—The Washington Post An award-winning story collection from the author of The Confusion of Languages. Through fiction of dazzling skill and astonishing emotional force, Siobhan Fallon welcomes readers into the American army base at Fort Hood, Texas, where U.S. soldiers prepare to fight, and where their families are left to cope after the men are gone. They’ll meet a wife who discovers unsettling secrets when she hacks into her husband’s email, and a teenager who disappears as her mother fights cancer. There is the foreign born wife who has tongues wagging over her late hours, and the military intelligence officer who plans a covert mission against his own home. Powerful, singular, and unforgettable, these stories will resonate deeply with readers and mark the debut of a talent of tremendous note.

Reviews:

“Gripping, straight-up, no-nonsense stories about American soldiers and their families. . . simple, tough, and true.” —The New York Times

“The explosive sort of literary triumph tthat appears only every few years. As such, it should not be missed.”

— New York Journal of Books

“Fascinating.”

— O,

the Oprah Magazine

“[A] searing collection.”

— Entertainment Weekly

“Poignant...compelling...likely to inform and move many readers.”

— The Boston Globe

“Prose that's brave and honest.”

— People

“Each of Fallon's stories leaves the reader wanting more...compulsively readable and memorable, stories of unsung courage displayed by characters hard to forget.”

— The Denver Post

“Lovely and wrenching...vivid and elegant...a compassionate yet unflinching portrait of the mdoern-day home front.”

— Los Angeles Times

“Terrific...and terrifically illuminating.”

— The Washington Post

“Each story's characters immediately grip the reader.”

— Library Journal (starred review)

“[A] powerful, resonant debut collection.”

— Publishers Weekly (starred review)

“In this poignant and beautiful collection of linked stories, Siobhan Fallon has created a world of characters we need to know.  These are our wounded, our courageous, our disheartened, our cynical and our brave.  You won't read these stories on the front pages of the newspaper, but still they feel like a news flash about the emotional toll of war.  You Know When the Men Are Gone delivers to us the inner lives of families who fight for our country while fighting their own deepest fears and demons. This is a brave and illuminating book.”—Dani Shapiro, author of Devotion  

“Siobhan Fallon is a remarkable debut author whose first collection of short stories,  You Know When the Men Are Gone, signals the debut of a new American talent. I was drawn into a world I had never seen before, and found heartache, courage, and laughter there.”—Jean Kwok, author of Girl in Translation  

“What a fascinating, rare glimpse into the domesticity of war. This is a wonderful debut.  Each beautifully rendered story is braced with intelligence and wisdom.”—Jill Ciment, author of The Tattoo Artist  

“There is the war we know—from Hollywood and CNN, about dirt-smeared soldiers disarming IEDs and roaring along in Humvees and kicking down the doors of terrorist hideouts—and then there is the battleground at home depicted by breakout author Siobhan Fallon, an army wife with a neglected, deeply important perspective and a staggering arsenal of talent, her sentences popping like small arm fire, her stories scaring a gasp out of you like tracer rounds burning in the night sky over your home town.”—Benjamin Percy, author of The Wilding, Refresh, Refresh, and The Language of Elk  

“Siobhan Fallon's You Know When the Men are Gone is a haunting elegy to those who bear the real burden when our nation goes to war: the spouses and children left behind. She writes with the author...

EAN: 9780451234391

Release Date: 03-01-2012

Languages: English

Item Note: Good shape with typical wear. Has a remainder mark. Paperback Used - Very Good Ships fast! 2012Reprint

Item Condition: UsedVeryGood

Binding: Paperback