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YOU KNOW WHEN THE MEN ARE GONE
Marking the debut of a major literary talent in the tradition of Raymond Carver and Lorrie Moore, YOU KNOW WHEN THE MEN ARE GONE is a collection of interconnected short stories that explore the other casualties - the wives and families of the men in military who fight overseas. I realize that the combination of short stories and a setting of an American Military base makes this a particularly hard sell, but Fallon is amazing. Powerful, singular and unforgettable, the stories in YOU KNOW WHEN THE MEN ARE GONE by Siobhan Fallon will stay with you for a very long time. This marks the debut of a new talent of tremendous note.
Advance praise, from both other authors and our own sales reps has been fantastic:
"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
"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 authority of hard-earned experience, and this collection of stories has much to teach us all." -Nathaniel Fick, author of One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer
"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 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
"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 authority of hard-earned experience, and this collection of stories has much to teach us all." -Nathaniel Fick, author of One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer
"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
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Published 2011-01-01 by Amy Einhorn |
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Published 2011-01-01 by Amy Einhorn |