Searching for Gurney
Jack Estes
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Add to basketSEARCHING FOR GURNEY explores the damaged lives of three U.S. Marines and one North Vietnamese soldier in the late 1960s and '70s. Each character's story begins at a different place-JT, home and struggling with flashbacks; Coop, on leave and getting drunk at his grandfather's funeral; Hawkeye, at the moment a judge gives him the choice of jail or boot camp; and Vuong, leaving his small village to join the NVA with patriotic fervor. Sent home after a horrific ambush, the Marines face new battles with PTSD and a hostile American public that treats them as criminals. Nightmares, anger, and substance abuse destroy family relationships and, ultimately, one character's life. For all of them, making sense of life after war requires the utmost courage.
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Jack Estes' new novel, Searching for Gurney, follows the lives of three US Marines and a North Vietnamese soldier during horrific battles in the jungles and rice paddies of Vietnam. But what happens after the war? With gripping clarity, Estes takes the reader into the damaged souls of these young men. The fate of Lt. Gurney haunts every corner of the story as each of them tries to make sense of the war.
"Searching for Gurney is a tender, convincing, sometimes harrowing, and wonderfully written novel that explores the psychological aftershocks of the American war in Vietnam. For veterans and for the families.of veterans, this book is a must-read. Even more than that, I highly recommend Searching for Gurney to those who rattle sabers and wave flags but have never experienced the horrors of people killing other people." —Tim O'Brien, The Things They Carried
"Searching for Gurney is a novel that will open your mind and heart to the sad reality that too many Vietnam veterans faced when they returned home. For those who fight in them, wars don’t end when the treaties are signed. For too many Vietnam veterans the safe harbor they yearned to come home to was filled with mines. Jack Estes has given us characters from all parts of America that will allow readers to understand a shameful time in our history, a time when young men risked everything and lost much to serve their nation’s bidding, but were vilified for doing so by those who they thought they served. —Karl Marlantes, Matterhorn
“Estes, a Marine Corps veteran who was wounded in Vietnam, brings both personal experience and meticulous research to the page. This brutal novel of American and Vietnamese soldiers’ struggles during and after the war will enthrall fans of character-driven drama. Great for fans of Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried, Bao Ninh’s The Sorrow of War.” —BookLife.
“In Estes’ war novel, Searching for Gurney, four soldiers cope with the effects of a deadly engagement between U.S. Marines and members of the North Vietnamese Army. The staggered timelines offer readers an almost Cubist vision of PTSD, providing its context while dramatizing its aftereffects. It all builds steadily to the key event, which, by the time it arrives, has grown to near-mythic proportions.” —Kirkus Reviews
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