Sympathy for the Devil

Kent Anderson's stunning debut novel is a modern classic, a harrowing, authentic picture of one American soldier's experience of the Vietnam War--"unlike anything else in war literature" (Los Angeles Review of Books).

Hanson joins the Green Berets fresh out of college. Carrying a volume of Yeats's poems in his uniform pocket, he has no idea of what he's about to face in Vietnam--from the enemy, from his fellow soldiers, or within himself. In vivid, nightmarish, and finely etched prose, Kent Anderson takes us through Hanson's two tours of duty and a bitter, ill-fated return to civilian life in-between, capturing the day-to-day process of war like no writer before or since.

Uimitorul roman de debut al lui Kent Anderson este un clasic modern, o imagine ingrozitoare si autentica a experientei unui soldat american din razboiul din Vietnam - „spre deosebire de orice altceva din literatura de razboi” (Los Angeles Review of Books). colegiu. Purtand un volum de poezii ale lui Yeats in buzunarul uniform, nu are nicio idee despre ceea ce urmeaza sa se confrunte in Vietnam - de la inamic, de la colegii sai soldati sau de la sine.