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Prisoners of War

Steve Yarbrough

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English
Vintage Books
15 August 2005
It is 1943, and the war has come home to Loring, Mississippi. As German POWs labor in the cotton fields, the local draft board sends boys into uniform, and families receive flags and condolences. But for Dan Timms, just shy of 18, the war is his ticket out of town and away from the ghosts that haunt him. As he peddles goods from a rolling store for his profiteer uncle, Dan tries to understand his friend L.C., a young man who, on account of his skin, feels like a prisoner himself. But one day, Dan spots Marty Stark who has just returned from Italy, mysteriously reassigned to guard the POWs he was once trained to kill. As Dan soon learns, Marty's war is far from over and threatens to erupt again.
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Imprint:   Vintage Books
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 203mm,  Width: 131mm,  Spine: 20mm
Weight:   272g
ISBN:   9781400030620
ISBN 10:   1400030625
Series:   Vintage Contemporaries
Pages:   304
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Audience:   General/trade ,  ELT Advanced
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Steve Yarbrough’s honors include the Mississippi Authors Award, the California Book Award, and a third from the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters. The author of two previous novels and three collections of stories, he is a native of the Delta town of Indianola and now lives in Fresno, California.

Reviews for Prisoners of War

The highest kind of art, full of subtlety and sensitivity. -Dallas Morning News Yarbrough writes with quiet compassion . . . [about] what it means to be American, and all the unexpected-and often unwarranted-sacrifices that identity might comprise. -The New York Times Book Review In this powerful, understated novel, [Yarbrough] finds a way to describe how fleeting moments between people slowly accrue and gather the heaviness of fate. -The Atlanta Journal-Constitution Vivid and dramatic. . . . Prisoners of War is smart and entertaining. -San Francisco Chronicle Yarbrough has created a timely war novel that is refreshingly unpredictable yet as comfortable as an old boot. -The Oregonian


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