Veterans Crisis Hotline Jon Chopan.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Chopan, Jon, author.

Series:

Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction Series

Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction

Standardized Title:

Short stories. Selections

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Veterans--Fiction.

Veterans.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xi, 176 pages )

Edition:

1st ed.

Manufacture:

Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2018

Place of Publication:

Amherst and Boston : University of Massachusetts Press, [2018]

Summary:

"The twelve stories of Veterans Crisis Hotline offer a meditation on the relationship between war and righteousness and consider the impossible distance between who men are and who they want to be. A veteran working at the hotline listens to the stories men tell when they need someone to hear their voices, when they need to access a language for their pain. Two men search for the head of a decapitated Iraqi civilian so that they might absolve themselves of the atrocities of war, a Marine hunts for the man who raped his girlfriend, and a teenage son replaces his dead father on the battlefield. With a quick wit and offbeat humor, Jon Chopan takes us from the banks of the Euphrates to the bars and VFW halls of the Rust Belt, providing insight into the Iraq War and its enduring impact on those who volunteered to fight in it"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Crisis hotline: veterans press

Valor

Men of principle

Rules of engagement

A full and happy life

Slaughter

Battle buddy

AWOL

Bullet catcher

On the Euphrates

On leave

The cumulative effect.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781613766149

1613766149

OCLC:

1077242935