{"product_id":"bring-out-the-dog-stories-paperback","title":"Bring Out the Dog: Stories - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eWill Mackin\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"A near-miraculous, brilliant debut.\"--George Saunders, Man Booker Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003eLincoln in the Bardo\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003e\"In one exquisitely crafted story after the next, Will Mackin maps the surreal psychological terrain of soldiers in a perpetual war.\"--Phil Klay, National Book Award-winning author of \u003ci\u003eRedeployment\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eWINNER OF THE PEN\/ROBERT W. BINGHAM PRIZE FOR DEBUT SHORT STORY COLLECTION\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e The eleven stories in Will Mackin's mesmerizing debut collection draw from his many deployments with a special operations task force in Iraq and Afghanistan. They began as notes he jotted on the inside of his forearm in grease pencil and, later, as bullet points on the torn-off flap of an MRE kit. Whenever possible he incorporated those notes into his journals. Years later, he used those journals to write this book. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Together, the stories in \u003ci\u003eBring Out the Dog \u003c\/i\u003eoffer a remarkable portrait of the absurdity and poetry that define life in the most elite, clandestine circles of modern warfare. It is a world of intense bonds, ancient credos, and surprising compassion--of success, failure, and their elusive definitions. Moving between settings at home and abroad, in vivid language that reflects the wonder and discontent of war, Mackin draws the reader into a series of surreal, unsettling, and deeply human episodes: In \"Crossing the River No Name,\" a close call suggests that miracles do exist, even if they are in brutally short supply; in \"Great Circle Route Westward Through Perpetual Night,\" the death of the team's beloved dog plunges them into a different kind of grief; in \"Kattekoppen,\" a man struggles to reconcile his commitments as a father and his commitments as a soldier; and in \"Baker's Strong Point,\" a man whose job it is to pull things together struggles with a loss of control. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Told without a trace of false bravado and with a keen, Barry Hannah-like sense of the absurd, \u003ci\u003eBring Out the Dog\u003c\/i\u003e manages to capture the tragedy and heroism, the degradation and exultation, in the smallest details of war. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cb\u003ePraise for \u003ci\u003eBring Out the Dog\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Cuts through all the shiny and hyped-up rhetoric of wartime, and aggressively and masterfully draws a picture of the brutal, frightening, and even boring moments of deployment. . . . \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eThings They Carried, \u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eRedeployment, \u003c\/i\u003e and now \u003ci\u003eBring Out the Dog: \u003c\/i\u003e war stories for your bookshelf that will last a very long time, and serve as reminders of what America was, is, and can still become.\"\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eChicago Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eA veteran of the U.S. Navy, \u003cb\u003eWill Mackin\u003c\/b\u003e served in Iraq and Afghanistan, first as a weapons system officer aboard a carrier-based jet, then as a joint terminal attack controller attached to a SEAL team. His writing has appeared in \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker, GQ, The New York Times Magazine, \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eTin House \u003c\/i\u003eand been anthologized in \u003ci\u003eThe Best American Short Stories 2014\u003c\/i\u003e. Originally from New Jersey, he lives in New Mexico with his wife and their two children.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.6 x 7.9 x 5.1 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 07, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47382865281202,"sku":"9780812985689","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0770\/3891\/1666\/files\/ca6e695a611b034da8351fc220b8ce61.webp?v=1777846318","url":"https:\/\/box.dadyminds.org\/products\/bring-out-the-dog-stories-paperback","provider":"DADYMINDS BOX","version":"1.0","type":"link"}