Paco's Story

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Synopsis
Paco Sullivan is the only man in Alpha Company to survive a cataclysmic Viet Cong attack on Fire Base Harriette in Vietnam. Everyone else is annihilated. When a medic finally rescues Paco almost two days later, he is waiting to die, flies and maggots covering his burnt, shattered body. He winds up back in the US with his legs full of pins, daily rations of Librium and Valium, and no sense of what to do next. One evening, on the tail of a rainstorm, he limps off the bus and into the small town of Boone, determined to find a real job and a real bed-but no matter how hard he works, nothing muffles the anguish in his mind and body. Brilliantly and vividly written,Paco's Story plunges you into the violence and casual cruelty of the Vietnam War, and the ghostly aftermath that often dealt the harshest blows.

Winner of the National Book Award

Copyright:
2005

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Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9780307539625
Related ISBNs:
9781400076833, 9780786154432, 9780374228477, 9780571149599
Publisher:
Vintage Books
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Larry Heinemann
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
History, Military, Literature and Fiction
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Bookshare Staff
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This is a copyrighted book.

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