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100 1  Powell, Mark,|d1976-|eauthor. 
245 14 The sheltering :|ba novel /|cMark Powell. 
264  1 Columbia :|bThe University of South Carolina Press,|c2014.
300    1 online resource. 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    computer|bc|2rdamedia 
338    online resource|bcr|2rdacarrier 
490 1  Story River Books 
520    "'You set yourself up as judge, jury, and executioner,' 
       Pamela had said, but that was wrong: you set yourself up 
       as angel, and await the word of God." Luther Redding lost 
       his job and almost lost his wife, Pamela, and teenaged 
       daughters Katie and Lucy, when the real estate bubble 
       burst in Florida. Now he pilots a Reaper drone over the 
       mountains of Afghanistan from a command center in the 
       bowels of Tampa's MacDill Air Force Base, studying a 
       target's pattern of life and awaiting the command to end 
       that life. Meanwhile Bobby Rosen has returned home from 
       his tours in Iraq to a broken marriage and an estranged 
       son, his promising military career cut short in a moment 
       of terrible violence in a Sadr City marketplace. As the 
       tales of Luther and Bobby unfold, Mark Powell masterfully 
       engages with the vexing, bifurcated lives of combatants in
       the global war on terror, those who are simultaneously 
       here and there and thus never fully freed from the life-
       and-death chaos of the battlefield. As Bobby sets off on a
       drug-fueled road trip with his brother Donny, newly 
       released from prison and consumed by his own inescapable 
       impulses, a sudden death in the Redding household sends 
       Luther's daughter Katie spiraling into grief and self-
       destruction. Soon the lives of the Reddings and the Rosens
       intersect as the collateral damage from the war on terror 
       sends these families into a rapid descent of violence and 
       moral ambiguity that seems hauntingly familiar to Bobby 
       while placing Katie in a position much like her father's —
       more removed witness than active participant in the bloody
       war unfolding in front of her. Overarching questions of 
       faith and redemption clash with the rough-hewn realities 
       of terror and loss, all to explosive ends in Powell's dark
       vision of modern Americana. Novelist Ron Rash has deemed 
       Powell "the best Appalachian novelist of his generation." 
       In this, his fourth novel, Powell broadens the Southern 
       backdrop of his earlier work into a sprawling thriller 
       taking readers from the Middle East to Charleston, 
       southern Georgia, Tampa, Miami, New Orleans, and into the 
       storied American West. In its themes, perspectives, and 
       pacing, The Sheltering recalls the work of Robert Stone, 
       Jim Harrison, and Ben Fountain while further establishing 
       Powell as a unique voice capable of interrogating 
       unfathomable truths with a beauty and cohesion of language
       that challenges our assumptions of the human spirit. 
588    Description based on print version record. 
611 27 War on Terrorism (2001-2009)|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01754980 
648  7 2001-2009|2fast 
650  0 Families of military personnel|vFiction. 
650  0 War on Terrorism, 2001-2009|xMoral and ethical aspects
       |vFiction. 
650  0 Loss (Psychology)|vFiction. 
650  7 FICTION / Psychological.|2bisacsh 
650  7 Ethics.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00915833 
650  7 Families of military personnel.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst00920136 
650  7 Loss (Psychology)|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01002621 
655  7 Fiction.|2fast|0(OCoLC)fst01423787 
655  7 Fiction.|2lcgft 
776 08 |iPrint version:|aPowell, Mark, 1976- author.|tSheltering
       |z9781611174342|w(DLC)  2014004292|w(OCoLC)878224398 
830  0 Story river books. 
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