The Odyssey of Sergeant Jack Brennan

The Odyssey of Sergeant Jack Brennan

Jack Brennan is a Marine Corps sergeant whose infantry squad has been cleared to return home from a grueling deployment to Afghanistan. A few years prior, Sergeant Brennan lost one of his closest friendsâ€”a young combat veteranâ€”to suicide and has vowed to do everything in his power to keep his Marines from a similar fate. On their last night in-country, Brennan, who has long kept a tattered copy of the Odyssey with him on deployment, shares his version of Homerâ€™s classic with his fellow soldiers to help prepare them for the transition back home.
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Brennan plunges into a rich retelling of Odysseusâ€™s long journey home from the battlefield at Troy, during which Odysseus and his men confront numerous obstaclesâ€”from the lure of a psychedelic lotus plant to ghoulish shades in the Land of the Dead to the seductive songs of the deadly Sirensâ€”as they try to make it back to Greece. Along the way, Brennan and his fellow Marines map the struggles faced by Odysseus and his men onto their ownâ€”isolation, addiction, guilt, depression, and loss. Through his retelling, Brennan reminds his squad that the gulf separating the battlefield from the home front is deep, wide, and sometimes hard to crossâ€”that it is possible to travel all the way home and, like the characters in the Odyssey, still feel lost at sea.
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Tragic, poignant, and at times funny and hopeful, The Odyssey of Sergeant Jack Brennan brilliantly conveys the profound challenges that many of todayâ€™s veterans face upon returning to civilian life, even as it tells â€œthe oldest war story of all time.â€
Country USA
Brand Pantheon
Manufacturer Pantheon
Binding Paperback
ItemPartNumber Full Colour
Model Full Colour
Color Black
ReleaseDate 2016-04-05
UnitCount 1
Format Illustrated
EANs 9780375715167

Country	USA
Brand	Pantheon
Manufacturer	Pantheon
Binding	Paperback
ItemPartNumber	Full Colour
Model	Full Colour
Color	Black
ReleaseDate	2016-04-05
UnitCount	1
Format	Illustrated
EANs	9780375715167

The Odyssey of Sergeant Jack Brennan

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