Godina izdanja: 1996
ISBN: 978-0-805-04695-X
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

A Rumor of War Paperback – 15 Nov. 1996, by Philip Caputo

Product details
Publisher: ‎ Owl Books,U.S.; Reprint edition (15 Nov. 1996)
Language: ‎ English
Paperback: ‎ 356 pages
Dimensions: ‎ 13.97 x 2.44 x 20.96 cm

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Review
`To call it the best book about Vietnam is to trivialize it . . . `A Rumor of War `is a dangerous and even subversive book, the first to insist-- and the insistence is all the more powerful because it is implicit – that the reader ask himself these questions: How would I have acted? To what lengths would I have gone to survive? The sense of self is assaulted, overcome, subverted, leaving the reader to contemplate the deadening possibility that his own moral safety net might have a hole in it. It is a terrifying thought, and `A Rumor of War` is a terrifying book.` - John Gregory Dunne, `Los Angeles Times Book Review`

`Caputo` s troubled, searching meditations on the love and hate of war, on fear, and the ambivalent discord warfare can create in the hearts of decent men, are among the most eloquent I have read in modern literature.` -- William Styron, `The New York Review of Books`

`Every war seems to find its own voice: Caputo . . . is an eloquent spokesman for all we lost in Vietnam.` -- C. D. B. Bryan, `Saturday Review`

`A book that must be read and reread-- if for no other reason than as an eloquent statement against war. It is a superb book.` -- Terry Anderson,` Denver Post`

`This is news that goes beyond what the journalists brought us, news from the heart of darkness. It was long overdue.` -- `Newsweek`

`Not since Siegfried Sassoon`s classic of World War I, `Memoirs of an Infantry Officer,` has there been a war memoir so obviously true, and so disturbingly honest.` -- William Broyles, `Texas Monthly`

Philip Caputo worked nine years for the Chicago Tribune and shared a Pulitzer Prize in 1972 for his reporting on election fraud in Chicago. The author of seven works of fiction and a second volume of memoir, he divides his time between Connecticut and Arizona.

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