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We read all 20 National Book Award nominees. Here’s what we thought.
Fiction
WINNER: Redeployment, by Phil Klay
Redeployment, a book of short stories about the Iraq War, is the best kind of anti-war fiction. Instead of simply asserting that war is hell, Klay shows it — in wrenching, brutal, and even occasionally funny detail.
Klay himself served as a Marine in Iraq, and many of the protagonists in the stories are the same. Each story is designed, in a different way, to bring out the experience of Americans who fought on the conflict. Oftentimes, this means descriptions of actual combat and its aftermath. But the stories frequently take place in the United States, grappling with the yawning gap between life in a war zone and "normal" life back home.
Some chapter are absolutely bonechilling. The title story’s opening paragraph, about the organized slaughter of dogs, is absolutely unforgettable. Ditto a chapter about a military chaplain’s attempt to bring war crimes to light — and the command structure’s total, complete dismissal of his efforts. But the tone varies. The most fun, and arguably best, story in the book is a Catch-22 style tale told from the point-of-view of a State Department officer in Iraq. Among the officer’s many
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Front Cover
Preface to the Third Edition
From the Preface to the First Edition
From the Preface to the Second Edition
Contents
List of Symbols
CHAPTER I Sets, Functions, and Integers
1. Sets
2. Functions
3. Relations and Binary Operations
4. The Natural Numbers
5. Addition and Multiplication
6. Inequalities
7. The Integers
8. The Integers Modulo n
9. Equivalence Relations and Quotient Sets
10. Morphisms
11. Semigroups and Monoids
CHAPTER II Groups
1. Groups and Symmetry
2. Rules of Calculation
3. Cyclic Groups
4. Subgroups
5. Defining Relations
6. Symmetric and Alternating Groups
7. Transformation Groups
8. Cosets
9. Kernel and Image
10. Quotient Groups
CHAPTER III Rings
1. Axioms for Rings
2. Constructions for Rings
3. Quotient Rings
4. Integral Domains and Fields
5. The Field of Quotients
6. Polynomials
7. Polynomials as Functions
8. The Division Algorithm
9. Principal Ideal Domains
10. Unique Factorization
11. Prime Fields
12. The Euclidean Algorithm
13. Commutative Quotient Rings
CHAPTER IV Universal Constructions
1. Examples of Universals
2. Functors
3. Universal Elements
4. Polynomials in Several Variables
5. Categories
6. Po
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