Luke Mogelson. (2016). These Heroic, Happy Dead: Stories. Crown.

Luke Mogelson. 2016. These Heroic, Happy Dead: Stories. Crown.

Luke Mogelson, These Heroic, Happy Dead: Stories. Crown, 2016.

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   • bioText: Luke Mogelson is a contributing writer at The New York Times Magazine and a recipient of the National Magazine Award in 2014. His fiction has appeared in The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Hudson Review, The Missouri Review, and The Kenyon Review. He lives in Paris.
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With his harrowing debut, Luke Mogelson provides an unsentimental, unflinching glimpse into the lives of those forever changed by war. Subtle links between these ten powerful stories magnify the consequences of combat for both soldiers and civilians, as the violence experienced abroad echoes through their lives in America.
        Troubled veterans first introduced as criminals in “To the Lake” and “Visitors” are shown later in “New Guidance” and “Kids,” during the deployments that shaped their futures. A seemingly minor soldier in “New Guidance” becomes the protagonist of “A Human Cry,” where his alienation from society leads to a shocking confrontation. The fate of a hapless Gulf War veteran who reenlists in “Sea Bass” is revealed in “Peacetime,” the story of a New York City medic's struggle with his inurement to calamity . A shady contractor job gone wrong in “A Beautiful Country” is a news item for a reporter in “Total Solar,” as he navigates the surreal world of occupied Kabul.  Shifting in time and narrative perspective—from the home front to active combat, between experienced leaders, flawed infantrymen, a mother, a child, an Afghan-American translator, and a foreign correspondent—these stories offer a multifaceted examination of the unexpected costs of war.
        Here is an evocative, deep work that charts the legacy of an unprecedented conflict, and the burdens of those it touched. Written with remarkable empathy and elegance, These Heroic, Happy Dead heralds the arrival of an extraordinary new talent.

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   • source: The New York Times Book Review
   • content: "Ten well-crafted stories of people scarred by war. . . . Mogelson avoids dwelling on trauma but circles it constantly, carefully exploring its fringes."
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   • source: David Means, Salon.com
   • content: "Masterful . . . Mogelson's first book of stories is pristine."
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   • source: The Paris Review Daily
   • content: "The men and women in These Heroic, Happy Dead are object lessons in what makes a book haunting and unforgettable. "
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   • source: The Rumpus
   • content: "Mogelson manages to do something beautiful and new in his work. . . . In addition to the excellent writing, Mogelson's stories impress even more because his skill is matched with significant personal knowledge or impressive research on subjects."
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   • source: San Francisco Chronicle
   • content: "Like Denis Johnson and Thom Jones, there are shards of grim humor in some of these stories, but for the most part it's a merciless reckoning with war's ignobility. . . . Mogelson captures the unnerving beauty that follows devastation."
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   • source: The Buffalo News
   • content: "Beautiful and spare. . . . Eloquent. . . . Mogelson is a genius of the ordinary."
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     February 29, 2016
     The effects of war hover like a leaky umbrella over the 10 stories that furnish Mogelson’s cogent debut collection, which finds veterans, active servicemen, and those around them struggling through conflicts at home and in combat. In “To the Lake,” a troubled ex-soldier drives into a New England snowstorm in hopes of reaching his estranged girlfriend, yet ends up instead at the home of another damaged veteran after, among other events, his truck loses control and crashes. “Visitors” follows the mother of a soldier in prison for an accidental murder as she grows accustomed to seeing her son behind bars. Across the ocean, “A Beautiful Country” finds a former commando traveling the vast expanse of Afghanistan for work as an independent military contractor, and “Total Solar” concerns a journalist caught in an attack on a garden restaurant in Kabul. Perhaps the strongest story is “Kids,” which studies grief through the eyes of an active Army captain as he loses comrades within his unit and outside his patrol base. Mogelson follows a traditional story structure throughout, often feathering in backstory in expected ways, and his narratives remain compelling. Hope is hard to come by in this collection, but the stories will linger with the reader.

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     Starred review from February 15, 2016
     U.S. veterans deal with the collateral damage of military service in this collection of often surprisingly understated stories. An alcoholic veteran of the Afghanistan campaign is bailed out of jail by another vet who lost his legs ("To the Lake"). A vet's broken marriage leaves his son with at least a bad physical scar, and the father eventually re-enlists ("Sea Bass"). A mother visits her veteran son in prison, eventually carrying there a box of letters he wrote to the father of the man he killed in a "drunken scrap" two months after being discharged ("Visitors"). Mogelson, who served in the National Guard without being deployed, spent almost three years as a freelance journalist in Afghanistan. The stories in this debut have the hard edge and sharp dialogue of well-observed reporting. In "A Human Cry," in which Mogelson draws a link between Army-supplied dentures and a death by farm mower, a brief scene captures a "big girl" in fishnet stockings, "little flesh diamonds pushing through the webbing like string-tied ham." Like the mower, other common items--a chef's knife, a car, a table saw--can cause mayhem stateside for the vet accustomed to military weapons. Only one story ("Kids") is fully engaged in combat, and it hangs on whether the action of a local boy is meant to warn or harm U.S. soldiers. All the stories rely on some measure of ambiguity and indirectness (unlike the hammering anti-war irony of the e.e. cummings poem from which the book's title is drawn). The fallout from PTSD may be everywhere, but the term and discussions thereon are MIA--and the stories as a result are broader and better. Mogelson shows impressive range and restraint in an area--war-related fiction--in which physical and emotional extremes have been too readily deployed and exploited.

     COPYRIGHT(2016) Kirkus Reviews, ALL RIGHTS RESERVED.

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     March 15, 2016
     This subtly interrelated and frequently gory collection of Afghan War tales packs a wallop. Mogelson, who writes for the New York Times Magazine and other periodicals, captures the grim realities of war and, even more, its aftermath in these raw and deceptively simple stories. His experience as a correspondent and his feel for the horrors of the countrychildren faking seizures to attract the attention of unsuspecting civilians, as in Total Solar lends credibility to the action. Some of the stories Visitors, for exampletake place in domestic settings (e.g., the Idaho state prison) in which the landscape seems every bit as threatening as the Afghan countryside. The technique of having soldiers from the early stories appearing later in the book as scarred civilians works particularly well, especially in A Human Cry. This is hard stuff to read, definitely worth it, but be prepared.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2016, American Library Association.)

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        Troubled veterans first introduced as criminals in “To the Lake” and “Visitors” are shown later in “New Guidance” and “Kids,” during the deployments that shaped their futures. A seemingly minor soldier in “New Guidance” becomes the protagonist of “A Human Cry,” where his alienation from society leads to a shocking confrontation. The fate of a hapless Gulf War veteran who reenlists in “Sea Bass” is revealed in “Peacetime,” the story of a New York City medic's struggle with his inurement to calamity . A...

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