"Buckman has that power that few writers have, not just to describe but to really make us feel the pain and the joy of this extraordinary life. This book puts Buckman up there with the big names."
—Gerry Nicosia, author of Home to War
"This book should carry an R-rating for violence, language, and sexual situations, but unlike the average movie, it earns these elements. . . ."
—Publishers Weekly
A young soldier in the 1990s returns home to discover the same frustrated America that had forced him into the Army. Jack Tyne drifts to Chicago, where he meets a dispossessed veteran, who becomes a surrogate father to him, pulling him into the dark heart of a violent national culture.
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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
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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