Fatal Light

A devastating portrait of war in all its horror, brutality, and mindlessness, this extraordinary novel is written in beautifully cadenced prose. A combat medic in Vietnam faces the chaos of war, set against the tranquil scenes of family life back home in small-town America. This young man's rite of passage is traced through jungle combat to malaria-induced fever visions to the purgatory of life in military-occupied Saigon. After returning home from war to stay with his grandfather, he confronts his own shattered personal history and the mysterious human capacity for renewal.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Santa Fe Writer's Project
Published: 04/01/2009
ISBN: 9780977679928
Pages: 170
Weight: 0.43lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.75d