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1999 FIRST EDITION HARDCOVER WITH DUSTJACKET

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Item number:330374016060
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Author: Beverly GologorskyFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House IncISBN-10: 0375502017
ISBN-13: 9780375502019Subject: --
Publication Year: 1999Topic: --
Special Attributes: 1st EditionLanguage: English
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A novel about a group of Vietnam veterans, their wives and friends and lovers, that deals with the effect of the war on their lives.

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Length:211 pages
Height:8.8 in.
Width:6.0 in.
Thickness:1.0 in.
Weight:12.8 oz.

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This brilliantly constructed, deeply human novel charts the fates of six couples, immediately following and 20 years after the Vietnam war.

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Rooster, Frankie, Rod, and Jason went to Vietnam as boys and came back as men tormented by what they did and saw. Gologorsky's first novel opens in 1973, as strong women struggle to love their returning men and protect them with the trappings of normal-seeming lives. Their success is spotty at best and comes at a considerable cost. By the mid-1990s, "home" for these men is a friend's couch, the perilous streets, a barricaded dwelling in foreclosure, and 'Nam itself, to which one man returns. Gologorsky sheds light on the hidden casualties of the Vietnam War and the family members bewildered by the men they love but barely recognize. As in quicksand, the harder they struggle, the deeper they all sink. Powerful and almost unbearably sad, this is an important glimpse into a neglected piece of our national history. Recommended for all public libraries. [Previewed in Prepub Alert, LJ 10/1/98.] Beth E. Andersen, Ann Arbor Dist. Lib., MI
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After a quick nod to Tim O'Brien, the title of this vivid, unsentimental Vietnam novel locates its center right at "home." Veterans "Men in trailers, tents, trucks, cars.... Men in tattered coats, stained pants, worn fatigues...." and their girlfriends, children and wives inhabit the troubled domestic spaces of Gologorsky's debut. The novel opens at a party in 1973, where a group of vets just back from battle try to reacclimate to civilian life. The festivities are thin disguise for the damage they have suffered, though, as their wives and girlfriends perceive immediately. The plot then skips ahead more than 20 years to examine the long-term effects of the war on the intertwined but unraveling lives of its American victims. One man has literally driven himself to death; two have abandoned their families to become street people; one is dying of Agent Orange-associated cancer; and yet another suffers from Lou Gehrig's disease. Unfortunately, the sheer number of characters somewhat diminishes the narrative momentum of Gologorsky's otherwise moving story. What is gained in the novel's breadth of scope, however, is the opportunity to see these people in all their seasons: bewildered, grieving, bitter and tenderly in love. This perceptive, compassionate account of the long-term effects of the Vietnam disaster on American life are succinctly summed up by one of the characters: "We've been falling down dead for 25 years." Agent, Melanie Jackson. (Feb.)
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