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Fiction. WATER IN DARKNESS is a superb novel...Daniel Buckman speaks for a new, young generation of soldiers who thought they were at peace Larry Heinemann. A young enlisted soldier haunted by his father's death in Vietnam returns home to Watega, Illinois, only to discover the same frustrated America which forced his escape into the Army. He quickly drifts north to Chicago, where he meets Danny Morrison, a violent, dispossessed Vietnam Veteran, who becomes a surrogate father for Jack Tyne, quickly pulling him into the dark heart of a violent national culture. Daniel Buckman was born in Rockford, IL. He served as a paratrooper with the U.S. Army's 82nd Airborne Division and attended the University of Illinois. He lives in Chicago. This is his first novel.
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"Depression is a difficult state to depict in literary form. Anne Sexton was by far the best poet to handle it, and William Styron did a magnificent job with it in his memoir, Darkness Visible. It's tricky because at its core depression is a variant of self-pity, and it's all too easy to become maudlin and self-indulgent, like Sylvia Plath or Elizabeth Wurtzel. The challenge is to convey the sense of futility and hopelessness without alienating the reader. Robert Stone did it brilliantly in his first novel, A Hall Of Mirrors, and now a writer by the name of Daniel Buckman has managed it with remarkable finesse in his first published novel, Water in Darkness..."
--Alan Cabal, New York Press, June 13-19, 2001
About the Author
Daniel Buckman was born in Rockford, IL in 1967. He served as a paratrooper with the U.S. Army's 82d Airborne Division and attended the University of Illinois. He currently lives and works in Chicago. Water in Darkness is his first novel.
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- PublisherAkashic Books
- Publication date2001
- ISBN 10 188845119X
- ISBN 13 9781888451191
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages220
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