Andrew Lichtenstein: Never Coming Home (Paperback)

~ (Author, Photographer), Zachary Barr (Contributor)

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America lies thousands of miles from the deserts of Iraq, and its civilians are rarely truly forced to confront the fact that it is a nation at war, and has been for more than four years. But every day, the list of casualties grows longer. The men and women killed in Iraq are buried every week back home. Their funerals are not dramatic national events, and they are rarely sites of political soul searching. Most families want to grieve privately, to remember their children as they knew them and as heroes who have died for all of us. Photographer Andrew Lichtenstein says of his prizewinning work, "These funerals are about paying tribute to promising lives cut drastically short. There are some funerals that I never take the camera out of the bag. And then there are others that allow us, I can only hope, to begin to feel the true cost of war." Lichtenstein's work has appeared in the New York Times, Time, Newsweek, Harper's, the Atlantic Monthly andAperture, among other publications. In this powerful new portrait of grief and sacrifice, he documents the families of eight American soldiers killed in Iraq. With interviews of the families by StoryCorps oral history producer and Slate and MSNBC contributor Zachary Barr. Never Coming Home is a project by Andrew Lichtenstein and Robert Peacock.

Product Details

• Paperback: 80 pages
• Publisher: Charta (August 1, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 8881586371
• ISBN-13: 978-8881586370
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 6.3 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 10.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,222,230 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Don't miss this book, October 10, 2007

By	N. Sokoloff (Salt lake City, UT United States) - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Never Coming Home is a truly informative book of great significance...brave, insighful, provocative, subtle...a reminder of the human price paid for war. Don't be fooled by the small size and low-budget production...probably no better book to come out of the Iraq war thus far. The images are all well-crafted and immensely personal. The interviews are heart-wrenching. Together they remind us of the true capacity of journalism to inform.