Losing Tim
2014
First Published
4.34
Average Rating
176
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"Losing Tim" is a memoir by a mother about a soldier son who killed himself. It’s a beautiful read. Burroway, a National Book Award nominee, welcomes readers to grieve along with her, while also providing a lens into how soldiers, and military contractors, like her son, are changed by their combat experiences. Jonathan Shay, author of "Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character," a highly acclaimed volume on PTSD, and a 2007 MacArthur Foundation Fellow, comments in the foreword, “To me, the pain recalls Homer's 'Iliad,' in which, as James Tatum puts it in 'The Mourner's Song,' 'the beauty [of the poetry] is in the killing.’” And Pulitzer Prize winner Madeleine Blais calls is "an elegy and a call to action from one of our finest writers."
Avg Rating
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Author
Janet Burroway
Author · 9 books
Janet Burroway is the author of seven novels including The Buzzards, Raw Silk (runner up for the national Book award), Opening Nights, and Cutting Stone; a volume of poetry, Material Goods; a collection of essays, Embalming Mom; and two children's books, The Truck on the Track and The Giant Jam Sandwich. Her most recent plays, Medea With Child, Sweepstakes, Division of Property, and Parts of Speech, have received readings and productions in New York, London, San Francisco, Hollywood, and various regional theatres. Her Writing Fiction is the most widely used creative writing text in America, and a multi-genre textbook, Imaginative Writing, appeared in 2002. A B.A. from Barnard College and M.A. from Cambridge University, England, she was Yale School of Drama RCA-NBC Fellow 1960-61, and is Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor Emerita at the Florida State University in Tallahassee.
