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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Pantheon Books
Publication date
April 5, 2016
Pages
157
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780375715167
ISBN-10
0375715169
Dimensions
0.50 by 6 by 9 in.
Weight
0.85 lbs.
Original list price
$19.95
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The Odyssey | Sing, Unburied, Sing: A Novel | Achilles in Vietnam | Chemistry | Odysseus in America | The Theater of War | The Theater of War | All That You've Seen Here Is God | Christian Morality
Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: Jack Brennan is a Marine Corps sergeant whose infantry squad has been cleared to return home from a grueling deployment to Afghanistan. A few years prior, Sergeant Brennan lost one of his closest friendsâa young combat veteranâto suicide and has vowed to do everything in his power to keep his Marines from a similar fate. On their last night in-country, Brennan, who has long kept a tattered copy of the Odyssey with him on deployment, shares his version of Homerâs classic with his fellow soldiers to help prepare them for the transition back home.
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Brennan plunges into a rich retelling of Odysseusâs long journey home from the battlefield at Troy, during which Odysseus and his men confront numerous obstaclesâfrom the lure of a psychedelic lotus plant to ghoulish shades in the Land of the Dead to the seductive songs of the deadly Sirensâas they try to make it back to Greece. Along the way, Brennan and his fellow Marines map the struggles faced by Odysseus and his men onto their ownâisolation, addiction, guilt, depression, and loss. Through his retelling, Brennan reminds his squad that the gulf separating the battlefield from the home front is deep, wide, and sometimes hard to crossâthat it is possible to travel all the way home and, like the characters in the Odyssey, still feel lost at sea.
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Tragic, poignant, and at times funny and hopeful, The Odyssey of Sergeant Jack Brennan brilliantly conveys the profound challenges that many of todayâs veterans face upon returning to civilian life, even as it tells âthe oldest war story of all time.â
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Brennan plunges into a rich retelling of Odysseusâs long journey home from the battlefield at Troy, during which Odysseus and his men confront numerous obstaclesâfrom the lure of a psychedelic lotus plant to ghoulish shades in the Land of the Dead to the seductive songs of the deadly Sirensâas they try to make it back to Greece. Along the way, Brennan and his fellow Marines map the struggles faced by Odysseus and his men onto their ownâisolation, addiction, guilt, depression, and loss. Through his retelling, Brennan reminds his squad that the gulf separating the battlefield from the home front is deep, wide, and sometimes hard to crossâthat it is possible to travel all the way home and, like the characters in the Odyssey, still feel lost at sea.
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Tragic, poignant, and at times funny and hopeful, The Odyssey of Sergeant Jack Brennan brilliantly conveys the profound challenges that many of todayâs veterans face upon returning to civilian life, even as it tells âthe oldest war story of all time.â
Editions
Hardcover
from Pantheon Books (April 5, 2016)
9781101870983 | details & prices | 160 pages | List price $24.00
Paperback
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from Pantheon Books (April 5, 2016)
9780375715167 | details & prices | 157 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 0.50 in. | 0.85 lbs | List price $19.95
About: Jack Brennan is a Marine Corps sergeant whose infantry squad has been cleared to return home from a grueling deployment to Afghanistan.
About: Jack Brennan is a Marine Corps sergeant whose infantry squad has been cleared to return home from a grueling deployment to Afghanistan.
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