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Illumination Rounds eBook

From Dispatches

by Michael Herr
language: english
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, August of 2017 ‧
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Fresh in his boots and three days in-country, Michael Herr is in a Chinook when a young soldier across from him is gunned. "It took me a month to lose that feeling of being a spectator to something that was part game, part show."
 
Written in unforgettable and unflinching detail, Herr captures the chaos and fervor of the war and the surreal insanity of life in that singular combat zone. Selected from Dispatches, one of "the best book to have been written about the Vietnam War" (The New York Times Book Review) and an instant classic straight from the front lines.

A Vintage Shorts Vietnam Selection. An ebook short.

Illumination Rounds

From Dispatches

by Michael Herr

Property Description
ISBN: 9780525562375
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Release Date: August of 2017
Language: English
Format: eBook
File Format and Compatibility:
Collection: A Vintage Short
Categories: eBooks in English > Tourist Guides and Maps > Asia, Pacific and Oceania
eBooks in English > Others
EAN: 9780525562375
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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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