Larry Heinemann - Close Quarters

Larry Heinemann - Close Quarters

4.50 4.5 (read 2 reviews)

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. Read by Richard Ferrone. Book available.

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Larry Heinemann
Richard Ferrone

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A book like an onomatopeia Apr 20, 2010
5.00 5/5.0
Pros:
Evolving language and a powerful message.
Cons:
none

One of the earliest_and_best books about the US_deployment_to_Vietnam by someone who was on_the_ground_there Apr 18, 2006
4.00 4/5.0
Pros:
very evocative
Cons:
much that it evokes is discomfort-inducing and could have had some phrases and stories pruned

Review: A down-and-dirty account of US infantrymen fighting in Vietnam

Larry Heinemann - Close Quarters
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