| Sergeant Dickinson First Edition, Edition Contributor(s): Gold, Jerome (Author) |
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ISBN: 0930773985 ISBN-13: 9780930773984 Publisher: Black Heron Press OUR PRICE: $13.46 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: August 2011 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | War & Military - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Historical - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.5" W x 8.3" (0.55 lbs) 180 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1950-1999 - Chronological Period - 1960's - Chronological Period - 1970's - Cultural Region - Southeast Asian |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Sergeant Dickinson is the radioman of a Special Forces A-team in the Central Highlands of Viet Nam. The camp is encircled and attacked for nine days by the North Vietnamese Army which wants to lure larger American units into combat for the first time. The war grows larger and darker, and Dickinson continues to be drawn back to it, tour after tour, even when he has the opportunity to leave, even though his post-traumatic stress threatens to overwhelm him. Readers of We Were Soldiers Once...and Young, or those who saw the movie, will be interested in the battle that led to the battle in the Ia Drang Valley depicted in We Were Soldiers... Library Journal: Highly Recommended. New York Times: First-rate fiction about battlefield experience. Nelson DeMille: The hard-hitting simplicity of Hemingway and the imagination of Philip Caputo...Truly remarkable and original. |
Contributor Bio(s): Gold, Jerome: - Jerome Gold is the author of fifteen books, including The Moral Life of Soldiers and the memoir, Paranoia & Heartbreak: Fifteen Years in a Juvenile Facility. Russell Banks said about this book: "I've finished reading Jerome Gold's terrific book cover to cover without a break... It's a powerful and very tenderhearted book without a soupCon of sentimentality. Unforgettable!" Mr. Gold's novels include Sergeant Dickinson, about which the New York Times Book Review said: "[It] belongs on the high, narrow shelf of first-rate fiction about battlefield experience." He has published stories, essays, reviews and poems in Chiron Review, Moon City Review, Fiction Review, Boston Review, Hawaii Review, and other journals. |