The Wax Bullet War by Sean Davis
On September 12, 2001, a year and a half after finishing his military service, Sean Davis strolled into the Oregon National Guard's recruiting office and re-enlisted. After dropping out of art school and working a dead-end government job, September 11 gave him a new sense of purpose and direction. Follow Sean Davis' life as he discovers the oddities of a pop-up America in a hostile desert wasteland; loses his best friend in a violent ambush; returns, critically wounded, to confinement in a place that's not his home; deals with the fallout of PTSD and the horror of what he experienced in that war zone; and finally, as he rediscovers art and its power to heal.Sean Davis, author of The Wax Bullet War and contributor to The Misfit Manifesto, is a Purple Heart Iraq War veteran, 2015 American Legion Legionaire of the Year Award winner, and 2016 Emily Gottfried Emerging Leader, Human Rights award recipient. His work has appeared in The Misfit's Manifesto (Simon & Schuster), the Ted Talk Book The Misfit's Manifesto (Simon & Schuster), and Forest Ave. Press anthocyanin. The Big Smoke, City of Weird, Sixty Minutes, Story Corps, Gobshite Quarterly, Flaunt Magazine, Human the movie He is the former commander of the American Legion Post 134 in Portland, Oregon; a seasonal firefighter for the US Forest Service; and a 2016 mayoral candidate in Portland, Oregon. His book, Wildland Firefighting in Oregon: A History, will be published by the History Press in February 2019.
Several Sean Davis pces in earlier editions. Gobshite Quarterly, The Big Smoke, The Goodmen Proj., War Tales anthol., Perceptions, and The Talking River Lit. have all published stories in this collection. The Iowa Review's 2018 Jeff Sharlet Memorial Award for Veterans shortlist included Sean's piece, Being the Real Account About the Time I Waterboarded People in Portland, Oregon, for Blackwater.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781932010701 |
| ISBN 10 | 193201070X |
| Title | The Wax Bullet War |
| Author | Sean Davis |
| Series | Openbook |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Ooligan Press |
| Year published | 2014-04-01 |
| Number of pages | 288 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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