Blood and Raisins: An Intimate Taste of Terror in Afghanistan - Softcover

Wilson, D. Scott

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0692271198 ISBN 13: 9780692271193

Publisher: Campanile Press, 2014

Synopsis

An Outsider’s View from Inside the War. A liberal itinerant anthropology professor is swept into the heart of the beast. From the bizarre incompetence of the Army’s controversial Human Terrain System to Pashtun farmers’ harsh struggle for survival in the Kandahar deserts to hallucinatory horrors inside Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Wilson’s unflinching irreverence cuts like a scalpel. This moving account of his life-changing journey is filled with dynamic characters and encounters ranging from hilarious to harrowing. Marching ever deeper into carnage and chaos, he teases out the threads of his life leading to the dawning realization that he was born and bred to this. After being blasted to the depths of his own personal hell, he is rescued first by brave soldiers and again by loving friends and family.

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About the Author

From his origins on a Colorado cattle ranch, D. Scott Wilson delved deep into the world of hard drugs and wild living before veering into eastern philosophy and academia, where he studied the same social outcasts he had embraced in his early teens. He’s studied life in the dark crevasses of the social order in several contexts in the U.S. and has enjoyed the opportunity to teach anthropology at the University of New Mexico and California State University Chico. His other books include Principles of Motion, Antibody, and Shades of Emmet. He lives in the mountains of southern Oregon with his family. Feel free to contact him at drspot@gmail.com.

Edition details

• Publisher: Campanile Press
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0692271198
• ISBN 13: 9780692271193
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 520