- Vietnam War, 1961-1975, National Book Award Winner, Fiction, Large type books
This mammoth odyssey about the Vietnam War transcends all other attempts to write about Vietnam, and makes them look like Hallmark greeting cards. It follows Skip Sands, working for the psychological operations department of the CIA, and his larger than life uncle “Colonel Sands”.
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Epic, overwhelming, demanding and bleak.
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- cooloverwhelming
- effortlessdemanding
- warmbleak
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Denis Johnson
- First published
- 2007
- Pages
- 649
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, Companhia das Letras
- Editions
- 15
- Language
- French, Portuguese, English
- ISBN
- 9780330449205
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