After Incoming - Softcover

Alan Hodgkinson

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0970822030 ISBN 13: 9780970822031

Publisher: Highbridge Pr, 2001

Synopsis

Those AK-47 toting little men should have remained back in the Mekong Delta where Ron Oriel left them over two years ago. But like the shrapnel he still carries around in his left leg, too deeply embedded for doctors to remove, the war seems forever lodged in his mind. Even the peaceful setting of a forested backyard, he discovers at his garden wedding, contains the right ingredients to incubate vivid memories of those days in the jungle.

Divorced and unemployed, Oriel finds himself on the edge of a bridge staring into the abyss. In Vietnam, he nightly dreamed about that Silver Bird delivering him home alive and in one piece. What went wrong?

About this title

About the Author:

In the middle of actively protesting the Vietnam War in the late Sixties in San Francisco and Berkeley, Alan Hodgkinson was drafted. The Army sent him to the Mekong Delta where he served as a rifleman with the 9th Infantry Division.

A graduate of California State University, he worked as a photojournalist for several years, then enrolled in Colorado State University's Graduate Writing Program. Afterwards, he joined the Peace Corps and was sent to Fiji, where he taught writing and literature at the University of the South Pacific.

Alan now lives in New Mexico where he spends his time writing. He has published many short stories and newspaper articles about the war since returning in 1969. AFTER INCOMING is his first novel.

About this edition

• Publisher: Highbridge Pr
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0970822030
• ISBN 13: 9780970822031
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 268