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Meditations in Green
by Stephen Wright
ISBN: 0375712933
ISBN-13: 9780375712937
Format: Paperback
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Summary
In this shocking and bitterly funny look at the dark side of Vietnam, James Griffin has left the horrors of the jungle war, but cannot escape all that the war has done to change him. He lives in a kaleidoscope of terror, driven to relive Vietnam endlessly, doing battle with his haunting memories of a brutal war...even at the risk of losing his health, his sanity, and his very soul.
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"Takes one's breath away with vivid, almost electrifying imagery."
-- Wall Street Journal
"[A] fever dream of the Vietnam War in which a soldier becomes convinced that the real enemy is the vegetable kingdom itself." -- Laura Miller
-- New York Times Book Review
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Vintage Books
Published date: 2003
Size: 4.75 x 8.25 inches
Weight: 0.6 pounds
Pages: 342
Publisher's Notes
Sardonic, searing, seductive and surreal, the award-winning Meditations in Green is regarded by many as the best novel of the Vietnam War. It is a kaleidoscopic collage that whirls about an indelible array of images and characters: perverted Winky, who opted for the army to stay off of welfare; eccentric Payne, who’s obsessed with the film he’s making of the war; bucolic Claypool, who’s irrevocably doomed to a fate worse than death. Just to mention a few.
And floating at the center of this psychedelic spin is Spec. 4 James Griffin. In country, Griffin studies the jungle of carpet bomb photos as he fights desperately to keep his grip on reality. And battling addiction stateside after his tour, he studies the green of household plants as he struggles mightily to get his sanity back. With mesmerizing action and Joycean interior monologues, Stephen Wright has created a book that is as much an homage to the darkness of war as it is a testament to the transcendence of art.
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