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Dispatches (Vintage International)
Dispatches - Vintage International
Author: Michael Herr
"He seems to have brought to this book the ear of a musician and the eye of a painter . . . the premier war correspondence of Vietnam."--Washington Post. "The best book I have ever read on men and war in our time."--John le Carre." . . . Dispatches puts the rest of us in the shade."--Hunter S. Thompson.
ISBN-13: 9780679735250
ISBN-10: 0679735259
Publication Date: 8/6/1991
Pages: 272
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Publisher: Vintage
Book Type: Paperback
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Yoni avatar reviewed Dispatches (Vintage International) on + 327 more book reviews
It's almost hard to even talk about this book. The absolute horrors that Herr witnessed were the same as those that served. His writing is stream of consciousness; heartbreakingly beautifully written nightmares. I've read many war books but this may be the most transparent I've ever read.


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