The Yellow Birds by Powers, Kevin
The Yellow Birds by Powers, Kevin

The Yellow Birds

Finalist for the National Book Award, The Yellow Birds is the harrowing story of two young soldiers...
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Author: Kevin Powers
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The Yellow Birds by Powers, Kevin

The Yellow Birds

$62.83
The Yellow Birds by Powers, Kevin

The Yellow Birds

$62.83
Author: Kevin Powers
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Finalist for the National Book Award, The Yellow Birds is the harrowing story of two young soldiers trying to stay alive in Iraq

"The war tried to kill us in the spring." So begins this powerful account of friendship and loss. In Al Tafar, Iraq, twenty-one-year old Private Bartle and eighteen-year-old Private Murphy cling to life as their platoon launches a bloody battle for the city. Bound together since basic training when Bartle makes a promise to bring Murphy safely home, the two have been dropped into a war neither is prepared for.

In the endless days that follow, the two young soldiers do everything to protect each other from the forces that press in on every side: the insurgents, physical fatigue, and the mental stress that comes from constant danger. As reality begins to blur into a hazy nightmare, Murphy becomes increasingly unmoored from the world around him and Bartle takes actions he could never have imagined.

With profound emotional insight, especially into the effects of a hidden war on mothers and families at home, The Yellow Birds is a groundbreaking novel that is destined to become a classic.



Author: Kevin Powers
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Published: 09/01/2012
Pages: 240
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.79lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.70w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9780316219365

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.5
Point Value: 9
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 156980 / Yellow Birds


Award: Indies Choice Book Awards - Honor Book
Award: Hemingway Foundation/PEN Award - Winner
Award: Guardian First Book Award - Winner
Award: National Book Awards - Finalist
Award: Flaherty-Dunnan First Novel Prize - Finalist


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 04/15/2012 pg. 58
Library Journal 06/01/2012 pg. 94
Kirkus Reviews 07/15/2012
Kirkus Reviews 05/15/2012
Publishers Weekly 07/30/2012 pg. 34
Booklist 08/01/2012 pg. 27
Men's Journal 09/01/2012 pg. 40
Entertainment Weekly 09/07/2012 pg. 77
Shelf Awareness 09/14/2012
New York Times Book Review 10/07/2012 pg. 1
New Yorker (The) 10/14/2012 pg. 22
Publishers Weekly Best Books 11/05/2012 pg. 26
Kirkus Best Fiction 11/15/2012 pg. 35
New Yorker (The) 11/19/2012 pg. 91
NY Times Notable Bks of Year 12/02/2012 pg. 25
Shelf Awareness 12/28/2012
Kirkus Bea Big Book Guide 05/15/2012 pg. 23
SLJ Best Adult Bks 4 Teens 12/01/2012 pg. 37
BookPage 09/01/2012

About the Author
Kevin Powers is the author of The Yellow Birds, which won the PEN/Hemingway Award, the Guardian First Book Award, and was a National Book Award Finalist, as well as Letter Composed During a Lull in the Fighting, a collection of poetry. He was born and raised in Richmond, Virginia, graduated from Virginia Commonwealth University, and holds an MFA from the University of Texas at Austin, where he was a Michener Fellow in Poetry. He served in the US Army in 2004 and 2005 in Iraq, where he was deployed as a machine gunner in Mosul and Tal Afar.
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