Santa Fe Writer's Project Sivumäärä: 210 sivua Asu: Pehmeäkantinen kirja Painos: Anniversary edition Julkaisuvuosi: 2009, 01.04.2009 (lisätietoa) Kieli: Englanti
A devastating portrait of war in all its horror, brutality, and mindlessness, this extraordinary novel is written in beautifully cadenced prose. A combat medic in Vietnam faces the chaos of war, set against the tranquil scenes of family life back home in small-town America. This young man's rite of passage is traced through jungle combat to malaria-induced fever visions to the purgatory of life in military-occupied Saigon. After returning home from war to stay with his grandfather, he confronts his own shattered personal history and the mysterious human capacity for renewal.