The National Book Foundation has awarded former Marine, Phil Klay, a National Book Award–his debut short story collection Redeployment, took home top honors as the winner in the fiction category.
Established in 1950, the National Book Award is an American literary prize administered by the National Book Foundation, a nonprofit organization. Their mission is to celebrate the best of American literature, to expand its audience, and to enhance the cultural value of great writing in America.
Available in the large print format through Thorndike Press, Redeployment, has also received starred reviews from all four of the major trade review magazines including Library Journal, Booklist, Publishers Weekly, and Kirkus Reviews.
About this Book:
From former marine captain and Iraq veteran Phil Klay, a brilliant and hard-hitting collection focusing on the complexities of life for soldiers on the front lines and after. Phil Klay’s Redeployment takes readers to the front lines of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, asking us to understand what happened there and what happened to the soldiers who returned. Interwoven with themes of brutality and faith, guilt and fear, helplessness and survival, the characters in these stories struggle to make meaning out of chaos.
Redeployment is poised to become a classic in the tradition of war writing. Across nations and continents, Klay sets in devastating relief the two worlds a soldier inhabits: one of extremes and one of loss. Written with a hard-eyed realism and stunning emotional depth, this work marks Phil Klay as one of the most talented new voices of his generation.
Thorndike Press, an imprint of Gale, publishes this esteemed title in the large print format to deliver benefits to readers of all ages and abilities. The large print format makes reading accessible for the visually impaired, improves letter and word recognition, aids reading comprehension and increases feelings of confidence and satisfaction when reading.
The following 2014 National Book Award finalists are also available in large print:
- All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr (Nominated for Fiction)
- The Impossible Knife of Memory by Laurie Halse Anderson (Nominated for Young People’s Literature)
- The Innovators: How a Group of Inventors, Hackers, Geniuses, and Geeks Created the Digital Revolution by Walter Isaacson (Nominated for Nonfiction)
- Lila by Marilynne Robinson (Nominated for Fiction)
- Orfeo by Richard Powers ((Nominated for Fiction)
- Some Luck by Jane Smiley (Nominated for Fiction)
- Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel (Nominated for Fiction)
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