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by Michael Herr
language: english
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, November of 2011 ‧
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Written on the front lines in Vietnam, Dispatches became an immediate classic of war reportage when it was published in 1977.

From its terrifying opening pages to its final eloquent words, Dispatches makes us see, in unforgettable and unflinching detail, the chaos and fervor of the war and the surreal insanity of life in that singular combat zone. Michael Herr’s unsparing, unorthodox retellings of the day-to-day events in Vietnam take on the force of poetry, rendering clarity from one of the most incomprehensible and nightmarish events of our time.

Dispatches is among the most blistering and compassionate accounts of war in our literature.


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Dispatches

by Michael Herr

Property Description
ISBN: 9780307814166
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Release Date: November of 2011
Language: English
Format: eBook
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Collection: Vintage International
Categories: eBooks in English > Tourist Guides and Maps > Asia, Pacific and Oceania
EAN: 9780307814166
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR

Michael Herr

Crítico de cinema e jornalista, Michael Herr (1940-2016) trocou a selva urbana de Nova Iorque pela de Saigão, em 1967, para cobrir a Guerra do Vietname como correspondente da Esquire. Embrenhou-se no terreno durante mais de um ano, acompanhou as tropas norteamericanas e viveu os momentos mais aterradores da guerra, entre os quais a Ofensiva do Tet e, no Inverno de 1968, o cerco de Khe Sanh. Inscreveu o seu nome no firmamento do Novo Jornalismo, ao exorcizar em DESPACHOS toda a loucura e violência do conflito que mais marcou o imaginário contemporâneo. A sua prosa revolucionou o jornalismo de guerra, esbatendo as fronteiras entre reportagem e literatura, e a ela se renderam Hunter S. Thompson e William S. Burroughs. Foi coargumentista de Apocalypse Now (1979), de Francis Ford Coppola, e de Nascido para Matar (1987), de Stanley Kubrick.

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