Naively detached from the atrocities of the war he is fighting, Mike Allison drifts through Vietnam combat, is wounded, and returns home to search for self-understanding
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Naively detached from the atrocities of the war he is fighting, Mike Allison drifts through Vietnam combat, is wounded, and returns home to search for self-understanding
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Add this copy of Service for the Dead to cart. $12.00, good condition, Sold by Inga's Original Choices rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Piggott, AR, UNITED STATES, published 1986 by Arbor House.
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Very Good- in Very Good- jacket. Ex-Library Complete number line at copyright page. Pages [274] clean, unmarked, binding tight, slight lean to spine. NON price-clipped DJ [$ 16.95] in mylar, clean, colors bright, minimal edge wear, attached to boards. Green boards, bright gilt lettering, clean. By the author of Cooks and Bakers. Usual ex-libri markings. Media Mail, Priority & most international shipping include free tracking information. Every book listed is located in my smoke free and climate controlled shop. All are inspected by me and will have qualities and/or flaws described.
Add this copy of Service for the Dead to cart. $13.19, very good condition, Sold by Wonder Book - Member ABAA/ILAB rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Frederick, MD, UNITED STATES, published 1986 by William Morrow.
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Very Good. Very Good condition. Very Good dust jacket. A copy that may have a few cosmetic defects. May also contain light spine creasing or a few markings such as an owner's name, short gifter's inscription or light stamp.
Add this copy of Service for the Dead to cart. $27.00, like new condition, Sold by Grendel Books, ABAA/ILAB rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Springfield, MA, UNITED STATES, published 1986 by Arbor House.
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Add this copy of Service for the Dead to cart. $57.00, very good condition, Sold by Waverley Books rated 5.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Santa Monica, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1986 by ARBOR..
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Near Fine in Fine dust jacket. 0877958122. First edition. Near fine in a fine dust jacket. (Hint of faint foxing at top edge. ) Author's SECOND book. A Vietnam war novel.; 274 pages.
Add this copy of Service for the Dead to cart. $11.48, very good condition, Sold by ThriftBooks-Reno rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Reno, NV, UNITED STATES, published 1986 by Arbor House.
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Book: Very Good. DJ: Good. 8vo. 274 pp. 5 5/8 x 8 1/2. Pine green cloth covered boards, stamped in gold on spine. Green dj, yellowed and slightly edgeworn. No interior damage or markings noted.
Add this copy of Service for the Dead to cart. $24.50, very good condition, Sold by ZENO'S rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from San Francisco, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1986 by Arbor House.
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Very Good jacket. New York. 1986. October 1986. Arbor House. 1st Printing. Very Good in Dustjacket With Slightly Faded Spine. 0877958122. Author Of Cooks And Bakers. 274 pages. hardcover. Jacket design by Dorothy Wachtenheim. Jacket illustration by Christopher Zacharow. keywords: American Literature Vietnam War. DESCRIPTION-With the publication of Service for the Dead, Anderson, a former Marine lieutenant who served at Hue during the Tet Offensive, demonstrates once again that he is a compelling narrator of men at war. On his way home from Vietnam after having been wounded, and newly immersed in a civilian reality that seems trivial, marine Pfc. Mike Allison tries to make sense of his Vietnam nightmare. In the back seat of his parents' car he drifts in and out of memories of the war: the terror of random death; endless patrols; the booby-trapped landscape; seemingly friendly Vietnamese who harbor Viet Cong; memories, dreams. nightmares. Mike and the men in his platoon make dream and reality interchangeable as the only way to make sense of the senseless, cryptic war. In a desperate attempt to control what is beyond their control, they create alternate realities of everything around them. Their company headquarters becomes the Fort, the no-man's land they patrol-and die in-Frontierland, their two sharp-shooting adversaries Zorro and the Cisco Kid-and the war itself a movie in which they are actors. But Mike and his platoon mates also create alternate realities of themselves. Longo, their fire team leader, gives each of them a nickname that mirrors in a cockeyed way their true selves: Pogo, the court jester, speaks wisdom foolishly; Candid Camera, the voyeur, delights in photographing everything, including the dead; the Professor, the intellectual, keeps trying to figure it all out. But this fragile accommodation to the war is shattered by a new platoon leader, leading to one of the most powerful and moving scenes in the literature of war. In a conclusion that will haunt readers long after the book is laid down, Mike is forced to confront himself and what it means to be a soldier. inventory #30274.
Add this copy of Service for the Dead to cart. $38.45, good condition, Sold by Bonita rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Santa Clarita, CA, UNITED STATES, published 1986 by Arbor House.
