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Review title: Literary war novel - good and bad
Product review: The good parts of this book raise it well above the rabble, but come up a little short of perfection. Arvin is a marvelous writer, his style is intelligent and colorful and, to me, brings to mind a little of Cormac McCarthy. The protagonist, Heck, is well described and realistically motivated. He's an outsider, which is a bit of a cliche in these kind of stories, but a believable one and sympathetically drawn.Arvin does follow in well trodden literary footsteps, though, with his theme. I won't give away plot details, but the soldier Heck takes an action that reverberates heavily and, I thought, a little too predictably at the end. This gives the book a bit of a teenage "struggle with conscience" theme reminescent of many coming of age books already written.Still I recommend it for the quality of writing and ideas presented.
