{"product_id":"battle-rattle-and-other-stories-paperback","title":"Battle Rattle and Other Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEric Smallwood\u003c\/b\u003e (Illustrator), \u003cb\u003eBrandon Davis Jennings\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eBattle Rattle and Other Stories\u003c\/b\u003e brings together Brandon Davis Jennings's acclaimed war fiction, including the bestselling Kindle Singles \u003cb\u003eBattle Rattle\u003c\/b\u003e and \u003cb\u003eWaiting for the Enemy\u003c\/b\u003e, along with the novel \u003cb\u003eHigh Desert Rats\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAt the center of the collection is Derrick Vezchek: a boy shaped by the Mojave Desert, a soldier marked by Iraq, and a man trying to endure the violence he has carried home. These linked stories move from drunken adolescence and military restlessness to deployment, friendship, marriage, fatherhood, and the emotional wreckage that follows men long after they hang their uniforms up for good.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWritten by an Operation Iraqi Freedom veteran, \u003cb\u003eBattle Rattle and Other Stories\u003c\/b\u003e is not a patriotic war story or a simple homecoming narrative. It is literary fiction about masculinity, memory, damage, loyalty, and the strange ways war follows people into kitchens, garages, marriages, bars, and childhood bedrooms.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFor readers of \u003cb\u003ePhil Klay's Redeployment\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eTim O'Brien's The Things They Carried\u003c\/b\u003e, \u003cb\u003eDenis Johnson's Jesus' Son\u003c\/b\u003e, and contemporary fiction about the moral and emotional aftermath of war.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIncludes: \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWaiting for the Enemy\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBattle Rattle\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eHigh Desert Rats\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrandon Davis Jennings is an Operation Iraqi Freedom veteran from West Virginia. His best-selling Kindle Single Battle Rattle was selected as an Amazon \"Best Book of the Year\" in 2016 and was selected for Amazon's Prime reading program and produced as an audiobook by Audible this year. After completing his Ph.D in English, Jennings decided that the best way he could use the skills he acquired during ten years of college was as a stay-at-home dad. He stays home with his daughter, two dogs, and two cats, writing when he's not otherwise occupied by the millions of tasks that other stay-at-home parents failed to warn him about. He is currently at work on multiple novels, and an essay collection: Operation Iraqi Freedom is My Fault due out from Little Presque Books this year.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 236\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.5 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 11, 2016\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48272175792349,"sku":"9780692717103","price":30.76,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/4QVbbBAwlI9780692717103.webp?v=1785256932","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/battle-rattle-and-other-stories-paperback","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}