Author
Larry Heinemann
3 award wins, 0 nominations across 2 books.
National Book Award winner for *Paco's Story*
Close Quarters
328 pages
Vietnam combat in the first person, in the person of "Flip" Dosier, shorttimer, driver of armored personnel carriers, reaches the point where he "couldn't feel anything in my fingers ... couldn't taste food."
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Paco's Story
209 pages
Paco Sullivan is the only man in Alpha Company to survive a cataclysmic Viet Cong attack on Fire Base Harriette in Vietnam. Everyone else is annihilated. When a medic finally rescues Paco almost two days later, he is waiting to die, flies and maggots covering his burnt, shattered body. He winds up back in the US with his legs full of pins, daily rations of Librium and Valium, and no sense of what to do next.
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