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“The product of high intelligence and passionate conviction, alternately mournful and gripping, and occasionally hilarious. It’s also a ripping good story.”
--- Soho Weekly News
The author, a veteran war correspondent and former prize-winning reporter with The New York Times, has called his new novel “asymmetric journalism,” a new and original genre that melds real-time reporting with literary fiction. A bright and privileged young American, Micah Ford, is battered by the great tragedies of modern America. He loses his mother, a nurse, to AIDS. His father is killed on 9/11, and a grandfather dies in Katrina. A girlfriend is murdered in a hate-crime in the Deep South. Micah’s biography overlaps his country’s: They’re both suffering from post-traumatic stress. Both are squarely “on the X.” Enlisting in the Army, he discovers a new clarity, nothing less than a new life, through the extreme violence he encounters during a secret mission against ISIS in Iraq. Torture, love, betrayal, a miracle or two, luck, American swagger, Islamist brutality, and a final compass-reading from valor --- it’s all in here, in a book that one reviewer has found “alarming, poignant and nothing short of brilliant.” Another critic called it “war porn, or war smut, something akin to pictures of flag-draped coffins returning home: colorful and descriptive, but also prurient.” Off the X, by Mark McDonald- Amazon Sales Rank: #579228 in Books
- Published on: 2015-10-20
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x .73" w x 6.00" l, .95 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 292 pages
About the Author Mark McDonald is a veteran journalist, foreign correspondent and bureau chief. He has worked for Knight Ridder Newspapers, The New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the International Herald Tribune, the Dallas Morning News and the Boston Globe. In addition to foreign postings in Paris, Moscow, Hanoi, Seoul and Hong Kong, he has reported from more than 100 countries plus a dozen combat theaters and disaster zones, including numerous deployments to Iraq, Afghanistan and Pakistan. At the IHT and The New York Times he won several Publisher’s Awards, Human Rights Press awards, and he shared the 2009 Osborn Elliott Prize for Excellence in Journalism on Asia. While recovering from injuries sustained while embedded in Afghanistan, Mark served as the Howard R. Marsh Professor of Journalism at the University of Michigan, from 2005-2007. He previously held the Knight Fellowship in International Business as a Michigan Journalism Fellow. While at the Dallas Morning News he worked on a team that went on to win the 1994 Pulitzer Prize for International Reporting. He also won a Dallas Press Club Katie Award, APME and GLAAD awards, and the Charles Green Headliner Award as Sportswriter of the Year in Texas. Mark’s sports journalism, foreign reporting and essays have appeared in a number of nonfiction books, including most recently Eddy van Wessel’s prize-winning memoir on war photography, “The Edge of Civilization.” Born in Washington, D.C., and a political science graduate of Kalamazoo College, Mark did post-bac work at Columbia University (history), New York University (fine arts) and the Monterey Language Institute (Vietnamese). He is a 2002 diplomate of Lomonosov Moscow State University in Russian language studies. He lives in New Mexico, Texas, Mexico and France.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. This expertly conceived and beautifully written book will make you re-think what you think ... By SW19 This expertly conceived and beautifully written book will make you re-think what you think you know about war. McDonald, who has extensive experience as an overseas and war zone correspondent, has written a bracing, deeply informed, authentic-sounding story about the disturbing ways that wars are prosecuted by our government and the nations we oppose. Sometimes it's hard to separate the heroes from the villains. Nobody feels completely "innocent" here by the end, and hardly anyone survives intact. Even American Exceptionalism is questioned. Throw in a plot that's riveting, characters that are finely drawn, and McDonald's ear for dialogue, and the result is a terrific book. Highly recommended.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful. The new gold standard for narrative journalism and historical fiction By Phil Karber McDonald’s brilliantly crafted work, Off The X, promises to be the new gold standard for narrative journalism and historical fiction. He combines Jim Harrison’s gift of creative character development and storytelling with David Halberstam’s Pulitzer-winning reporting and mastery of military detail and mindset. McDonald, a former war correspondent, deftly combs through the carnage in Iraq’s desert landscape for the larger truths of folly and self-deception in America’s grandest of misadventures. This book is one not to be missed.
0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. I'd recommend this book for anyone interested in what is happening ... By Rod Davis Books from these wars may still be germinating, but McDonald's is notable for the knowledge of the actual ground operations, the subtleties of military culture, and the essence of brutality on all sides. Indeed, parts of the book are extremely violent and disturbing, almost as if from a horror flick. However, the pulse of the book is to portray the movement of the war from 9-11 through perhaps its mid-point (we don't know the end yet). It's also interesting in the updating that seems to take place in the online version, which could be the future of novels and nonfiction publishing, creating the kind of indeterminate text that deconstruction theory began examining in the 1970s. I'd recommend this book for anyone interested in what is happening in Iraq and even Afghanistan today.
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