Fatal Light
| By: | Richard Currey |
| Publisher: | Independent Publishers Group (Chicago Review Press) |
| Print ISBN: | 9780977679928 |
| eText ISBN: | 9780977679966 |
| Edition: | 1 |
| Format: | Page Fidelity |
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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.