| Dispatches: Introduction by Robert Stone Contributor(s): Herr, Michael (Author), Stone, Robert (Introduction by) |
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ISBN: 0307270807 ISBN-13: 9780307270801 Publisher: Everyman's Library OUR PRICE: $22.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: February 2009 Annotation: "He seems to have brought to this book the ear of a musician and the eye of a painter . . . the premier war correspondence of Vietnam."--Washington Post. "The best book I have ever read on men and war in our time."--John le Carre." . . . Dispatches puts the rest of us in the shade."--Hunter S. Thompson. "From the Trade Paperback edition." |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Military - Vietnam War - Biography & Autobiography | Personal Memoirs - Biography & Autobiography | Military |
| Dewey: 959.704 |
| LCCN: 2008049583 |
| Series: Everyman's Library Classics & Contemporary Classics |
| Physical Information: 0.94" H x 5.26" W x 8.14" (0.97 lbs) 288 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Southeast Asian - Chronological Period - 1960's - Chronological Period - 1970's |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Written on the front lines in Vietnam, Dispatches became an immediate classic of war reportage when it was published in 1977. From its terrifying opening pages to its final eloquent words, Dispatches makes us see, in unforgettable and unflinching detail, the chaos and fervor of the war and the surreal insanity of life in that singular combat zone. Michael Herr's unsparing, unorthodox retellings of the day-to-day events in Vietnam take on the force of poetry, rendering clarity from one of the most incomprehensible and nightmarish events of our time. Dispatches is among the most blistering and compassionate accounts of war in our literature. |