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

Herr, Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0307270807 ISBN 13: 9780307270801

Publisher: Everyman's Library, 2009

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.

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Review:

Michael Herr, who wrote about the Vietnam War for Esquire magazine, gathered his years of notes from his front-line reporting and turned them into what many people consider the best account of the war to date, when published in 1977. He captured the feel of the war and how it differed from any theater of combat ever fought, as well as the flavor of the time and the essence of the people who were there. Since Dispatches was published, other excellent books have appeared on the war--may we suggest The Things They Carried, The Sorrow of War, We Were Soldiers Once ... and Young--but Herr's book was the first to hit the target head-on and remains a classic.

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About this edition

• Publisher: Everyman's Library
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0307270807
• ISBN 13: 9780307270801
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288