![]() ![]() Through it all, Turner paints a devastating portrait of what it means to be a soldier and a human being. ![]() Across time, he seeks parallels in the histories of others who have gone to war, especially his taciturn grandfather (World War II), father (Cold War), and uncle (Vietnam). Free of self-indulgence or self-glorification, his account combines recollection with the imagination’s efforts to make reality comprehensible. In this breathtaking memoir, Turner retraces his war experience- pre-deployment to combat zone, homecoming to aftermath. My Life as a Foreign Country is lyrical and restless, both ironic and profoundly empathic.” “In Brian Turner’s extraordinarily capable hands, language is war’s undoing, in the sense that his words won’t allow absurdity and terror to be anything less than real. Now, each night beside his sleeping wife, he imagines himself as a drone aircraft, hovering over the terrains of Bosnia and Vietnam, Iraq and Northern Ireland, the killing fields of Cambodia and the death camps of Europe-a landscape of ongoing violence, revealing all that man has done to man. ![]() In 2003, Sergeant Brian Turner crossed the line of departure with a convoy of soldiers headed into the Iraqi desert. A war memoir of unusual literary beauty and power from the acclaimed poet who wrote the poem “The Hurt Locker.” ![]()
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