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LIBRA PS3552.R6927 D5 1990 copy 2
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LIBRA - Special PS3552.R6927 D5 1990
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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Brown, Larry, 1951-2004.
Contributor:
Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)
Series:
Vintage contemporaries
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Veterans--Fiction.
Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
Veterans.
Mississippi--Fiction.
Mississippi.
Vietnam Conflict.
Medical Subjects:
Vietnam Conflict.
Genre:
Fiction.
Penn Provenance:
Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
Physical Description:
236 pages ; 21 cm.
Edition:
First Vintage contemporaries edition.
Place of Publication:
New York : Vintage Books, 1990.
Summary:
Braiden Chaney lost his arms and legs in Vietnam. Walter James lost most of his face. And when they meet 22 years later--in adjoining beds in a V.A. hospital, their wounds still hurt. As these two men--one black, one white--tell their stories, they tell the story of the war itself and of all the lives--poor black lives in particular--it consumed.
Notes:
"Originally published in hardcover by Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill in 1989"--Title page verso.
ISBN:
0679730494
9780679730491
OCLC:
21561664

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