Long Tan / Verity Laughton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Laughton, Verity, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Drama.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 55 pages) : illustrations

Distribution:

London : Bloomsbury Publishing (UK), 2023.

Place of Publication:

Sydney : Currency Press, 2022.

System Details:

text file HTML

Summary:

This is Phuoc Tuy Province500 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Army soldiers locked in a ferocious battle. For the young men fighting through the raging monsoon 17 Australians (plus another lost later from wounds) and more than 245 Vietnamese would lie dead. Many more would carry enduring physical and emotional scars of their experiences that day. Verity Laughton's intense and moving semi-verbatim play is composed from interviews with the surviving Australian soldiers Vietnamese contributors and the family and friends of those who died. More than a recounting of one battle it is an exploration of the trauma of war the fractures in collective memory and the need to forgive. And tonight I will have another sleepless night. We always do. The worst time in our lives is August. We don't sleep in August."

ISBN:

9781760626105

1760626104

9781760622800

176062280X

OCLC:

1395949688