Larry Heinemann, Author . Doubleday $24 (256p) ISBN 978-0-385-51221-3
This may be the only book written by an American veteran that harshly condemns Gen. William Westmoreland and sings the praises of Vietnamese Gen. Vo Nguyen Giap. Heinemann's autobiographical Close Quarters
(1977) is one of the most...
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Larry Heinemann, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $15.95 (212p) ISBN 978-0-374-22847-7
When incoming fire lights up the sky over the good old boys at Fire Base Harriet in Vietnam, the tough soldiers just look at each other and settle in, certain that the nearly 100 of them will die. And all but one are visited by the descending...
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Larry Heinemann, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $20 (241p) ISBN 978-0-374-12919-4
Although readers of Heinemann's first two books (the Vietnam novels Close Quarters and Paco's Story , which won the 1987 National Book Award for Fiction) may be surprised by the radical change of subject matter and mood in the author's new work,...
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Larry Heinemann, Author Penguin Books $10 (256p) ISBN 978-0-14-023025-3
Oddball characters and a slapstick plot mark Heinemann's rambling story of Maximilian Nutmeg, a small-time con artist who decides to do the honest thing when he finds a wallet containing $800. (July)
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