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2014

Title:	Redeployment / Phil Klay.
Author:	Klay, Phil.
Format:	Book
Publisher, Date:	New York : The Penguin Press, 2014.
Description:	291 pages ; 24 cm
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. 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"-- Provided by publisher.
Subjects:	Afghan War, 2001-2021 -- Fiction. Iraq War, 2003-2011 -- Fiction. Soldiers -- United States -- Fiction.
Genre:	War fiction. Short stories.
Other Title:	Short stories. Selections
Contents:	Redeployment -- FRAGO -- After Action Report -- Bodies -- OIF -- Money as a weapons system -- In Vietnam they had whores -- Prayer in the furnace -- Psychological operations -- War stories -- Unless it's a sucking chest wound -- Ten kliks south.
ISBN:	9781594204999 (hardback)
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Phil Klay is a Dartmouth graduate and a veteran of the US Marine Corps. He served in Iraq during the surge and subsequently received an MFA from Hunter College. His first published story, “Redeployment”, appeared in Granta’s Summer 2011 issue. His writing has also appeared in the New York Times, the New York Daily News, Tin House, and in The Best American Nonrequired Reading 2012. - (Penguin Putnam)

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