Sympathy for the Devil - Softcover

Anderson, Kent

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0553580876 ISBN 13: 9780553580877

Verlag: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group, 2000

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Book by Anderson Kent

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An acclaimed and controversial account of the Vietnam era follows a college student who discovers his own capacity for violence when he becomes a Green Beret during the Vietnam War and is forever changed by the experience. Reprint.

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some critics for its brutality but heralded by others as a modern-day classic, Sympathy for the Devil is a terrifying, intoxicating journey through the violence, madness, and insane beauty of battle. It traces the story of a hardened Green Beret named Hanson, a college student who goes to war with a book of Yeats's poetry in his pocket and discovers the savagery within himself.

In this extraordinary novel, we follow Hanson through two tours of duty and a bitter attempt to live as a civilian in between. At one with the lush and dangerous world around him in Vietnam, Hanson is doomed to survive the landscape of devastation he encounters. Sympathy for the Devil contains some of the most vivid, finely etched prose ever written about the actual process of war--from firing a weapon for the first time in battle to the moment a young man knows that he has entered a living hell and found a home....

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• Verlag: Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0553580876
• ISBN 13: 9780553580877
• Einband: Libro de bolsillo
• Anzahl der Seiten: 416