Sympathy for the Devil Contributor(s): Morrell, David (Foreword by), Anderson, Kent (Author) |
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ISBN: 0316489484 ISBN-13: 9780316489485 Publisher: Mulholland Books OUR PRICE: $15.29 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: July 2019 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | War & Military - Fiction | Action & Adventure - Fiction | Noir |
Dewey: FIC |
Series: Mulholland Classic |
Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.4" W x 8.2" (0.70 lbs) 400 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 1950-1999 - Chronological Period - 1960's - Chronological Period - 1970's - Cultural Region - Asian - Cultural Region - Southeast Asian |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Kent Anderson's stunning debut novel is a modern classic, a harrowing, authentic picture of one American soldier's experience of the Vietnam War--"unlike anything else in war literature" (Los Angeles Review of Books). Hanson joins the Green Berets fresh out of college. Carrying a volume of Yeats's poems in his uniform pocket, he has no idea of what he's about to face in Vietnam--from the enemy, from his fellow soldiers, or within himself. In vivid, nightmarish, and finely etched prose, Kent Anderson takes us through Hanson's two tours of duty and a bitter, ill-fated return to civilian life in-between, capturing the day-to-day process of war like no writer before or since. |