Michael Herr

Dispatches

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The best book to have been written about the Vietnam War (The New York Times Book Review); an instant classic straight from the front lines.From its terrifying opening pages to its final eloquent words, Dispatches 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.Dispatches is among the most blistering and compassionate accounts of war in our l… Mehr

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Produktdetails

ISBN: 978-0-679-73525-0
EAN: 9780679735250
Produktnummer: 19344023
Verlag: Vintage Books N.Y.
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 1991
Seitenangabe: 272 S.
Ausstattung: Trade Paperback
Masse: H20.5 cm x B13.1 cm x D1.9 cm 284 g
Gewicht: 284

Über den Autor

Michael Herr was a novelist and war correspondent. Born in Lexington, Kentucky in 1940, he began reporting from Vietnam for Esquire in the 1960s, during the height of the war. He later chronicled those experiences in his memoir, Dispatches. He is the author of three other books, The Big Room, Walter Winchell, and Kubrick, and coauthor of the screenplays for Apocalypse Now and Full Metal Jacket. He died in 2016.