Meditations in Green : Library Edition

Wright, Stephen; Collyer, Will (NRT)

ISBN 10: 1549186051 / ISBN 13: 9781549186059

Published by Little Brown and Company, 2020

Seller Inventory # 38715281-n

Synopsis:

One of the greatest novels ever written out of the Vietnam war, by a writer who experienced it firsthand.

Deployed to Vietnam with the U.S. Army's 1069 Intelligence Group, Spec. 4 James Griffin starts out clear-eyed and hard-working, believing he can glide through the war unharmed. But the kaleidoscope of horrors he experiences gets inside him relentlessly. He collapses, gradually, in step with the exploding hell around him, and ends up unstrung, waiting for the cataclysm that will bring him home, dead or not.

Griffin survives, but back in the U.S. his battles intensify. Beset by addiction, he takes up meditating on household plants and attempts to adjust to civilian life. Through passages gorgeous, agonizing, and surreal, Stephen Wright paints a searing portrait of a nation driven to the brink by violence and deceit. Meditations in Green is a haunting exploration of the harrowing costs of war and yet-unhealed wounds, "the impact of an experience so devastating that words can hardly contain it." (Walter Kendrick, New York Times Book Review)

About the Authors: Stephen Wright is a Vietnam veteran, MFA graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and the author of five novels. He has received a Whiting Award in Fiction, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Lannan Literary Fellowship, and has taught writing and literature at Iowa, Princeton, Brown, and The New School. He was born in Warren, Pennsylvania, and lives in New York City.

Will Collyer, an AudioFile Earphones Award-winning narrator, is a film, television, and stage actor. He has starred in television shows such as Melrose Place, Charmed, CSI: Miami, and Boston Public, as well as numerous films and plays. He holds a BA in theater arts from the UCLA School of Theater, Film, and Television.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Meditations in Green : Library Edition
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Publication Date: 2020
Condition: New