Public Libraries of Suffolk County, New York

Close quarters, Larry Heinemann

eng

In the stripped-down, unsullied patois of an ordinary soldier, draftee Philip Dosier tells his story of the war. Straight from high school, too young to vote or buy himself a drink, he enters a world of mud and heat, blood and body counts, ambushes and firefights. It is here that he embarks on the brutal downward path to wisdom that awaits every soldier. In the tradition of "The naked and the dead" and "The thin red line," "Close quarters" is the harrowing story of how a decent kid from Chicago endures an extraordinary trial and returns profoundly altered to a world on the threshold of change

no index present

fiction

Close quarters

Larry Heinemann

adult