Close Quarters - Softcover

Heinemann, Larry

3.86

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Softcover

ISBN 10: 0140085785 ISBN 13: 9780140085785

Publisher: Penguin, 1986

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Philip Dosier views and participates in the skirmishes, battles, noise, obscenities, marijuana highs, battlefield racism, spirit of atrocity, and other ingredients of the war in Vietnam and returns home to make his own peace on the banks of the Wabash River

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Review:

"An unremittingly honest look into the black pit of war....Larry Heinemann's voice is clear and true." -The New York Time"The best work of fiction to come out of the Vietnam War." -The Houston Chronicle"Close Quarters can stand with the finest Vietnam writing, fact or fiction." --Chicago Tribune"The most ambitious and substantial novel about the war in Vietnam . . . . the first one that people can read 75 years from now and gain an insight into how the war was truly fought . . . following the talk of the soldiers, you feel more like an eavesdropper than a reader." --Kansas City Star

"An unremittingly honest look into the black pit of war. . . . Larry Heinemann's voice is clear and true." --The New York Times

"The best work of fiction to come out of the Vietnam War." --The Houston Chronicle

"Close Quarters can stand with the finest Vietnam writing, fact or fiction." --Chicago Tribune
"The most ambitious and substantial novel about the war in Vietnam . . . . the first one that people can read 75 years from now and gain an insight into how the war was truly fought . . . following the talk of the soldiers, you feel more like an eavesdropper than a reader." --Kansas City Star

About the Author:

Larry Heinemann's novel Paco's Story won the National Book Award in 1987. He lives in Chicago, Illinois.

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