Sympathy for the Devil
Author | : Kent Anderson |
Publisher | : Mulholland Books |
Total Pages | : 365 |
Release | : 2018-11-13 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780316489492 |
ISBN-13 | : 0316489492 |
Rating | : 4/5 (92 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Kent Anderson's stunning debut novel is a modern classic, a harrowing, authentic picture of one American soldier's experience of the Vietnam War--"unlike anything else in war literature" (Los Angeles Review of Books). Hanson joins the Green Berets fresh out of college. Carrying a volume of Yeats's poems in his uniform pocket, he has no idea of what he's about to face in Vietnam--from the enemy, from his fellow soldiers, or within himself. In vivid, nightmarish, and finely etched prose, Kent Anderson takes us through Hanson's two tours of duty and a bitter, ill-fated return to civilian life in-between, capturing the day-to-day process of war like no writer before or since.