By Eve OttenbergA stereoscopic study of battlefield carnage and suburban aspirations - of the chaos of roadside explosions abroad and the masquerade of normality at home - Eve Ottenberg Stone's stingingly detailed, stately paced Dead in Iraq is an elegy suffused with a sense of loss and fortified with a quiet fury over lives destroyed, dreams dashed, bonds severed. It's a novel about what happens under the noise of headline news, and how the lives of the survivors are lived after those headlines fade - the silent, invisible true casualty toll of war.
James Wolcott, Vanity Fair columnist and author of the novel The CatsittersEve Ottenberg not only knows how to tell a story, but brings you so far inside that it'll stay with you.
Nat Hentoff, Village Voice columnistISBN: 978-0-911051-43-8
240 pages, $18.95
This product was added to our catalog on Monday 01 December, 2008.
