You Know When the Men are Gone

Fallon, Siobhan

ISBN 10: 0399157204 / ISBN 13: 9780399157202

Published by Amy Einhorn Books / G. P. Putnam's Sons, NY, 2011

About this Item

Quarter bound in publisher's blue cloth over blue boards, gilt lettering on spine and cover. Siobhan Fallon's stunning debut collection of short stories, all centering on the experience of women (and children) enduring the absence of their men (at war) or coping with the inevitable difficulties when their soldiers return. These stories deal with the troubles and anxieties that all military families experience, but their characters are so individual and their circumstances so particular, that they never come off as stereotypical. . Both the volume and the unclipped dust jacket are in perfect, pristine condition; unread, unmarked, tight, square, and clean. AS NEW/AS NEW. 8vo 8" - 9" tall. 226, (1) pp.

Seller Inventory # 27019

Bibliographic Details

• Title: You Know When the Men are Gone
• Publisher: Amy Einhorn Books / G. P. Putnam's Sons, NY
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0399157204
• ISBN 13: 9780399157202
• Binding: Hard Cover
• Edition: 1st Edition. First Printing.
• Condition: As New
• Dust Jacket Condition: As New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Women
  • Novels, Poetry & Literature
  • Military, Military History & Weapons

About this title

Synopsis

Reminiscent of Raymond Carver and Tim O'Brien, an unforgettable collection of intercollected short stories.

In Fort Hood housing, like all army housing, you get used to hearing through the walls... You learn too much. And you learn to move quietly through your own small domain. You also know when the men are gone. No more boots stomping above, no more football games turned up too high, and, best of all, no more front doors slamming before dawn as they trudge out for their early formation, sneakers on metal stairs, cars starting, shouts to the windows above to throw them down their gloves on cold desert mornings. Babies still cry, telephones ring, Saturday morning cartoons screech, but without the men, there is a sense of muted silence, a sense of muted life.

There is an army of women waiting for their men to return in Fort Hood, Texas. Through a series of loosely interconnected stories, Siobhan Fallon takes readers onto the base, inside the homes, into the marriages and families-intimate places not seen in newspaper articles or politicians' speeches.

When you leave Fort Hood, the sign above the gate warns, You've Survived the War, Now Survive the Homecoming. It is eerily prescient.

About the Author

Siobhan Fallon lived at Fort Hood while her husband, an Army major, was deployed to Iraq for two tours of duty. She earned her MFA at the New School in New York City. She lives with her family near the Defense Language Institute in Monterey, CA.