Dispatches Introduction by Robert Stone

Herr, Michael; Robert Stone (Intro)

ISBN 10: 0307270807 / ISBN 13: 9780307270801

Editore: Everyman's Library, New York, 2009

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Everyman's Library; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 288 pages; 2009 Everyman's Library. HC/DJ 1st Everyman's edition and printing. Snugly bound and neat in crisp edged and uniformly bright pictorial dust jacket with publisher's $24 issue price intact to unclipped front flap. Publisher's silk bookmark sewn in. Just about as new. NF/NF. Codice articolo 56732

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Titolo: Dispatches Introduction by Robert Stone

Casa editrice: Everyman's Library, New York

Data di pubblicazione: 2009

Legatura: Hardcover

Condizione: Near Fine

Condizione sovraccoperta: Near Fine

Edizione: First Edition.

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Written on the front lines in Vietnam, Dispatches became an immediate classic of war reportage when it was published in 1977.

From its terrifying opening pages to its final eloquent words, Dispatches makes us see, in unforgettable and unflinching detail, the chaos and fervor of the war and the surreal insanity of life in that singular combat zone. Michael Herr’s unsparing, unorthodox retellings of the day-to-day events in Vietnam take on the force of poetry, rendering clarity from one of the most incomprehensible and nightmarish events of our time.

Dispatches is among the most blistering and compassionate accounts of war in our literature.

Informazioni sull?autore:

Michael Herr was a novelist and war correspondent. Born in Lexington, Kentucky in 1940, he began reporting from Vietnam for Esquire in the 1960s, during the height of the war. He later chronicled those experiences in his memoir, Dispatches. He is the author of three other books, The Big Room, Walter Winchell, and Kubrick, and coauthor of the screenplays for Apocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket. He died in 2016.

Robert Stone, a National Book Award winner, lives in New York City.