Vietnam-Perkasie - Softcover

Ehrhart, W.; Ehrhart, W. D.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0870239570 ISBN 13: 9780870239571

Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press, 1995

Synopsis

In 1982, John Newman, curator of the Vietnam War Literature Collection at Colorado State University, said of W.D. Ehrhart: "As a poet and editor, Bill Ehrhart is clearly one of the major figures in Vietnam War literature." This autobiographical account of the war, the author's first extended prose work, demonstrates Ehrhart's abilities as a writer of prose as well. Vietnam–Perkasie is grim, comical, disturbing, and accurate. The presentation is novelistic―truly, a "page-turner"―but the events are all real, the atmosphere intensely evocative.

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From the Back Cover:

Vietnam-Perkasie: A Combat Marine Memoir is basic to understanding Ehrhart's life, his poetry, and the trajectory of his succeeding three autobiographical memoirs.

About the Author:

W. D. Ehrhart holds an Honorable Discharge from the US Marine Corps and a PhD from the University of Wales at Swansea. The recipient of the President's Medal from Veterans for Peace, a Pew Fellowship in the Arts, two Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowships, a Mary Roberts Rinehart Foundation Grant, and an Excellence in the Arts Award from Vietnam Veterans of America, he is the husband of Anne and father of Leela, and teaches English and history at the Haverford School in suburban Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he also coaches winter track and sponsors the school's student journal of literature and art.

About the Author
H. Bruce Franklin, author or editor of fifteen books on culture and history, is The John Cotton Dana Professor of English and American Studies at Rutgers University.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Publication date: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0870239570
• ISBN 13: 9780870239571
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 328