Prayer At Rumayla
Presenting a tale of the Gulf War by Charles Sheehan-Miles, “Prayer At Rumayla”.
Nineteen year-old Chet Brown arrived home from the Gulf War in the spring of 1991 and found that, for him, the war was only beginning. Betrayed by his friends and lover, ignored by his family, Brown travels across the country in search of meaning behind the horrors of his war.
April 26th, 2007 at 7:53 pm
Please feel free to drop any question or comments about the book, either here or back on my site! Prayer at Rumayla is now back in print and available at Amazon.com, and I’m always interested in hearing comments.
April 27th, 2007 at 8:26 pm
I suppose I’ll be the first. I’ve listened to the first few chapters and the review was dead on. Stark and disturbing. Sometimes life is what it is. I don’t know the background of the author but the military aspects of the novel are accurate. The areas were he talks about redeployment back Stateside are true to form. What really got me hooked on this novel were the little details. Being uncomfortable without your weapon and dealing REMFs who belittled your war time experiences. All in all it seems like a promising start.
Reader beware, this novel deals with graphic situations that might be unapprorate for the workplace etc.
May 1st, 2007 at 9:03 am
Is there a peice missing? Chapter 5, 3 of 3??
May 1st, 2007 at 2:28 pm
Wow.
Thanks for the heads up on that. I’ll send an email make sure we get that updated. In the meantime, you can get it right off my site or from iTunes.
Charles
Jeff — thanks for the great feedback!
June 5th, 2007 at 8:29 pm
A dark and disturbing look into the psyche of a war veteran. Some days I couldn’t stop listening and other days I was too disgusted with the thought of what was to come to actually listen. The book felt very real, almost too real for comfort.
At some points the audio quality wasn’t so great, but overall the book was quite impressive.
June 25th, 2007 at 7:35 pm
Charles, I really enjoyed listening to your work. Thanks for taking the time to share this with the world. I confess that I had no idea–I must have been asleep with the rest of the country in ‘91. I’m glad to have been shaken awake.
David
June 25th, 2007 at 8:00 pm
David, thanks so much for the kind words!
Charles
July 26th, 2007 at 4:36 am
Thank you so much for your book. Wonderfully written, wonderfully read. It sounds true enough that you cant help but be taken by it. At the same time, there are times you would prefer to be able to think it is just another fiction …
Do you have a plan to have it translated in french ? I would like to offer this book to a couple of friends, but most of them dont read english well enough (I’m from Switzerland).
Thanks a lot and please, keep writing !