Publisher Description
What happens to people's lives during times of battle and strife? From the American Revolution to the ongoing war in Iraq, the subject of this collection is how people cope with the dramatic shifts that come with war. Before Independence, a slave fights for freedom by taking up arms for the British; in World War I, a mother goes to the front lines to see her son; and in our time, a teenager in Oregon waits for e-mail from his father in the Middle East.
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About Robert Olen Butler
Robert Olen
Butler
is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of more than a dozen novels, several story
collections, and a book on the creative process, From Where You Dream. A recipient of both a Guggenheim Fellowship
in Fiction and a National Endowment for the Arts grant, he also won the Richard
and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and
Letters and was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. He has twice won a
National Magazine Award in Fiction and has received two Pushcart Prizes. He
teaches creative writing at Florida State University.