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| A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier | 
 enlarge | Author: Ishmael Beah
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (410 reviews)
Sales Rank: 3851
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Hardcover
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 240
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 8.4 x 5.7 x 1
ISBN: 0374105235
Dewey Decimal Number: 966.404
EAN: 9780374105235
ASIN: 0374105235
Publication Date: February 13, 2007
Release Date: February 13, 2007
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My new friends have begun to suspect I haven?t told them the full story of my life.
?Why did you leave Sierra Leone??
?Because there is a war.?
?You mean, you saw people running around with guns and shooting each other??
?Yes, all the time.?
?Cool.?
I smile a little.
?You should tell us about it sometime.?
?Yes, sometime.?
This is how wars are fought now: by children, hopped-up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. Children have become soldiers of choice. In the more than fifty conflicts going on worldwide, it is estimated that there are some 300,000 child soldiers. Ishmael Beah used to be one of them.
What is war like through the eyes of a child soldier? How does one become a killer? How does one stop? Child soldiers have been profiled by journalists, and novelists have struggled to imagine their lives. But until now, there has not been a first-person account from someone who came through this hell and survived.
In A Long Way Gone, Beah, now twenty-five years old, tells a riveting story: how at the age of twelve, he fled attacking rebels and wandered a land rendered unrecognizable by violence. By thirteen, he?d been picked up by the government army, and Beah, at heart a gentle boy, found that he was capable of truly terrible acts. This is a rare and mesmerizing account, told with real literary force and heartbreaking honesty.
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 Great Read!!! October 8, 2008
A Definite page turner! Couldn't sleep till i was done reading it. So poignantly written. It made me take a look at myself and humanity! Thanks Ishmael but I wish he would have talked about how he adjusted in the US. All the same, a must read!
A Long Way Gone-- Memoirs of a Boy Soldier October 5, 2008
A fascinating and well written account of a phenomenon few of us know much about. What an extraordinary young man.
 A Long Way Gone October 1, 2008
This book has good description and is an 'easy read'. It had a very interesting story about a boy in Sierra Leone and what changes his life.
A Long Way Gone October 1, 2008
This was a very heart wrenching book. A recommend for everyone so people are made aware of the atrocities of war. Even thought you are made aware of the terrible situations you understand how people cope in how ever bizarre a manner.
 very good, but.... October 1, 2008
I was really interested in this book and thought it was very well written. I would have given it 5 stars, but it was very disappointing how Ishmael ended the book!
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