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Youngblood audiobook

  • By: Matt Gallagher
  • Narrator: Kirby Heyborne
  • Category: Fiction, Literary
  • Length: 12 hours 49 minutes
  • Publisher: Simon & Schuster Audio
  • Publish date: January 01, 2016
  • Language: English
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Youngblood Audiobook Summary

“An urgent and deeply moving novel” (Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times) about a young American soldier struggling to find meaning during the final, dark days of the War in Iraq.

The US military is preparing to withdraw from Iraq, and newly minted lieutenant Jack Porter struggles to accept how it’s happening–through alliances with warlords who have Arab and American blood on their hands. Day after day, Jack tries to assert his leadership in the sweltering, dreary atmosphere of Ashuriyah. But his world is disrupted by the arrival of veteran Sergeant Daniel Chambers, whose aggressive style threatens to undermine the fragile peace that the troops have worked hard to establish.

As Iraq plunges back into chaos and bloodshed and Chambers’s influence over the men grows stronger, Jack becomes obsessed with a strange, tragic tale of reckless love between a lost American soldier and Rana, a local sheikh’s daughter. In search of the truth and buoyed by the knowledge that what he finds may implicate Sergeant Chambers, Jack seeks answers from the enigmatic Rana, and soon their fates become intertwined. Determined to secure a better future for Rana and a legitimate and lasting peace for her country, Jack will defy American command, putting his own future in grave peril.

For fans of Phil Klay’s Redeployment or Ben Fountain’s Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk, Youngblood provides startling new dimension to both the moral complexity of war and its psychological toll.

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Youngblood Audiobook Narrator

Kirby Heyborne is the narrator of Youngblood audiobook that was written by Matt Gallagher

Matt Gallagher is a Wake Forest graduate and US Army veteran. He’s the author of the novels Youngblood and the memoir Kaboom: Embracing the Suck in a Savage Little War. He holds an MFA in fiction from Columbia and has written for The New York Times, The Atlantic, Esquire, and The Paris Review. He lives with his wife and son in Brooklyn.

 

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Matt Gallagher is the author of Youngblood

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Youngblood Full Details

Narrator Kirby Heyborne
Length 12 hours 49 minutes
Author Matt Gallagher
Category
Publisher Simon & Schuster Audio
Release date April 20, 2024
ISBN 9781442395343

Subjects

The publisher of the Youngblood is Simon & Schuster Audio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is Fiction, Literary

Additional info

The publisher of the Youngblood is Simon & Schuster Audio. The imprint is Simon & Schuster Audio. It is supplied by Simon & Schuster Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781442395343.

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This book is only available in the United States.

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