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Chronicles the story of an American who, in a matter of months, betrays his conscience and his humanity in Vietnam, descends into savagery, and brings his guilt and self-revulsion home with him
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About the Author
John Nichols is the author of The Milagro Beanfield War and On Top of Spoon Mountain (UNM Press).
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With the cynical conviction that his purpose as a grunt in Vietnam was "to mutilate people and landscape as thoroughly and as horribly as possible," Michael Smith returns to the U.S. a sociopath, unable to shuck off his murderous state of mind. Nichols (The Magic Journey has written a straightforward and jitters-inducing account of the seemingly permanent effects of war upon the character and future life of a veteran whose terrible memories charge him with a desire to murder and humiliate again. A significant addition to the literature on the Vietnam conflict, the novel approaches a moving serenity with Smith's unexpected progress toward adjustment and love in a New Mexican town. At that midway point, however, the narrative goes awry. Its propelling madness gone, it expresses renewed outrage without convincing spirit, since Nichols cannot add more wisdom about violence, grief, revenge and redemption to what has already been said. It's an unfortunate loss of purpose, for the book's first half is a tour de force.
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- PublisherHenry Holt & Co
- Publication date1987
- ISBN 10 0805003746
- ISBN 13 9780805003741
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages338
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