Dispatches: Introduction by Robert Stone (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series)

Herr, Michael

ISBN 10: 0307270807 / ISBN 13: 9780307270801

Published by Everyman's Library, 2009

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Dispatches: Introduction by Robert Stone (Everyman's Library Contemporary Classics Series)
• Publisher: Everyman's Library
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0307270807
• ISBN 13: 9780307270801
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: acceptable

About this title

Synopsis

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.

About the Author

Michael Herr was a novelist and war correspondent. Born in Lexington, Kentucky in 1940, he began reporting from Vietnam for Esquire in the 1960s, during the height of the war. He later chronicled those experiences in his memoir, Dispatches. He is the author of three other books, The Big Room, Walter Winchell, and Kubrick, and coauthor of the screenplays for Apocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket. He died in 2016.

Robert Stone, a National Book Award winner, lives in New York City.