{"product_id":"heavy-bitter-dust-9781733726269","title":"Heavy Bitter Dust","description":"Eddie LeFever hated high school. The year was 1965 and he could barely sit at a desk through his last few months as a graduating senior. When his best friend Johnny was denied a college football scholarship, the two buddies enlisted in the Marines. It seemed a fine way to start an adult life. Their country was not at war and a multi-year service stint seemed like it might be a useful way to start a career path after four years of high school. That is, until that fall and new orders were issued and the two new Marines found themselves on a boat to Vietnam.\"We'll show up and show some force and then go home,\" Eddie said to Johnny. Instead, the two soldiers passed through a gantlet of horrors that would lead one to his death and the other missing in action. Based on the \u003cem\u003eTelegony\u003c\/em\u003e, the last book of Homer's Epic Cycle, \u003cem\u003eHeavy Bitter Dust\u003c\/em\u003e recounts the search of a Vietnamese son for his American warrior father, a father he never knew and who never knew him. When the long search ends, there is only one possible resolution, one as tragic as it is inevitable. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Cooskie Creek Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/20\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781733726269\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 250\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.53d","brand":"Willam C. Haigwood","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52934336086197,"sku":"9781733726269","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/heavy-bitter-dust-9781733726269","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}