Dispatches - (Vintage International) by Michael Herr (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>The best book to have been written about the Vietnam War (<i>The New York Times Book Review</i>); an instant classic straight from<b> the front lines.</b></b> <p/>From its terrifying opening pages to its final eloquent words, <i>Dispatches </i>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. <p/><i>Dispatches </i>is among the most blistering and compassionate accounts of war in our literature.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>"The best book I have ever read on men and war in our time." --John le Carré <p/>"In the great line of Crane, Orwell, and Hemingway . . . Herr reaches an excruciating level of intensity . . . 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." --<i>The Washington Post</i> <p/> . . .<i> Dispatches </i>puts the rest of us in the shade.<br>--Hunter S. Thompson </p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Michael Herr was a novelist and war correspondent. Born in Lexington, Kentucky in 1940, he began reporting from Vietnam for <i>Esquire</i> in the 1960s, during the height of the war. He later chronicled those experiences in his memoir, <i>Dispatches. </i>He is the author of three other books, <i> The Big Room, Walter Winchell, </i>and <i>Kubrick</i>, and coauthor of the<i> </i>screenplays for <i>Apocalypse Now </i>and <i>Full Metal Jacket.</i> He died in 2016.
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