In the spring of 2004, Tim went home on leave to Namibia, where his wife and children lived.

Tim was convinced of the value of his work, so he went to work for one of those corporations, overseeing mine removal in increasingly dangerous conditions in Iraq. The Pentagon need not keep track of their casualties.' The temp help could be cut loose without V.A. 'The corporations could make quick profits. There were (it is difficult now to imagine) virtually no books to serve as guidance, she explains in the introduction to the. But when she went to find a text to use with the class, she could not find anything that spoke to fiction writing. 'By the time Tim reached Iraq in 2003, half the jobs that had been done by soldiers from World War I to the first Gulf War would be farmed out to multinational corporations and their hired hands,' Burroway writes. In 1972, Janet Burroway was assigned to teach a narrative techniques class at Florida State. Then the Army privatized his job, and thousands of others. He volunteered for deployments around the world, garnered glowing evaluations and found his niche as a mine removal expert - a task aimed at saving lives. Janet Burroway is the author of plays, poetry, essays, children’s books, and 9 novels including The Buzzards, Raw Silk, Opening Nights, Cutting Stone, (all Notable Books of the New York Times), Bridge of Sand, and Simone in Transit. Tim served in the Army for four years and the Reserves for eight. Anybody who aims to write well would do him- or herself a huge favor by buying this book. Tim was 'one of those boys for whom the paraphernalia of war held a fascination from toddlerhood,' she writes, despite his mother's liberal politics and distrust of the military. Burroways book is absolutely the best book on the craft of writing Ive ever found. It is the story of Tim Eysselinck, the elder of Burroway's two sons. Janet Burroway Series Sightline Books: The Iowa Series in Literary Nonfiction (no longer acquiring) Season 2004 Fall Subject (s) Literature Women's Studies Add to Cart Janet Burroway followed in the footsteps of Sylvia Plath.

But the devastating and insightful Losing Tim is probably her most deeply personal book.

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