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Title: A good, fast-paced read
Review: This is the E-book version of a novel published in 1999. The novel won the W.Y Boyd Award for best military fiction.It is a swift, satisfying read because of Mort's trademark style--fluid, deceptively easy but in fact quite elegant. It is the story of Patrick "Irish" Donnelly's experience in Vietnam, juxtaposed against his current post-service life. Probably one of the more accessible Vietnam War stories you'll read. Mort limits the number the characters, allowing us to feel invested in their lives and in some cases, deaths. One reviewer of the book called it a "fictionalized memoir." Maybe. But it is very much a novel in structure--the individual scenes build tension and then release--in spite of the alternating chapters (War, home). Recommended.
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