Vroege RecensentenRichard Currey
April 2014 Partij
Weggever beëindigd: 28 april om 06:00 pm EDT
The lives of the working class in West Virginia—a train engineer, an epileptic, coal miners and outlaws, the fragile and dispossessed—are explored in this powerful yet tender collection of six short stories and a novella. They depict an isolated world of hardship, human endurance, and hard-won dignity and are a lyrical rendering of times and places now largely gone—but the stirring clarity of people and landscape can persist in the reader's imagination.
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- Papier
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- General Fiction, Fiction and Literature
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- Santa Fe Writers Project (Uitgever)
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March 2009 Partij
Weggever beëindigd: 23 maart om 06:00 pm EDT
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.
- Media
- Papier
- Genres
- General Fiction, Historical Fiction, Fiction and Literature
- Aangeboden door
- Santa Fe Writers Project (Uitgever)
- Links
- Boek informatie
LibraryThing Werkpagina
30
exemplaren
589
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