Richard Currey served four years as a Navy corpsman with the Fleet Marine Force in Vietnam. "While born in actual journals and letters, Crossing Over, has become a poetic documentary rathet than a literal one: the fiction of memory focusing the past for meaning." --from book. Cover is worn and smudged, with some water spots, shows wear. One word outlined in red. Still a valuable testimony and powerful. Inventory #000780. Size: 8vo - over 7�" - 9�" tall.

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Title

Crossing Over: A Vietnamese Journal By Richard Currey.

Publisher

-, Cambridge, MA

Publication Date

1980

Language

English

ISBN 10

0918222222

ISBN 13

9780918222220

Binding

Stapled Wrapper

Edition

Advanced Reader's Edition.

Condition

Good

Dust Jacket Condition

Fair

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Poetry

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Poetry/prose of the Vietnam War experience, praised by Daniel Berrigan.

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Richard Currey has been praised for the emotional precision and riveting imagery of his lyrical prose. The London Sunday Times called Currey as "a dazzling writer, almost making you shield your eyes as you read... Currey achieves a stark immediacy that makes you wince." He is the author of four critically acclaimed works, the recipient of numerous awards, including two National Endowment for the Arts fellowships. In addition to Crossing Over, Currey is the author of a short-story collection, The Wars of Heaven, and two novels, Fatal Light and Lost Highway. Fatal Light was short-listed for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Best First Novel and won the Vietnam Veterans of America's Excellence in the Arts Award.

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