Close Quarters: A Novel-Fast Shipping

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From the moment his first novel was published, Larry Heinemann joined the ranks ofthe great chroniclers of the Vietnam conflict–Philip Caputo, Tim O’Brien, and GustavHasford.

In the stripped-down, unsullied patois of an ordinary soldier, drafteePhilip Dosier tells the story of his war. Straight from high school, too young tovote or buy himself a drink, he enters a world of mud and heat, blood and body counts,ambushes and is here that he embarks on the brutal downward pathto wisdom that awaits every soldier. In the tradition of
Naked and the Dead and
TheThin Red Line,
Close Quarters is the harrowing story of how a decent kid from Chicagoendures an extraordinary trial– and returns profoundly altered to a world on thethreshold of change.