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Close Quarters

A Novel

Close Quarters( )
Author: Heinemann, Larry
Read by: Ferrone, Richard
ISBN:978-0-7861-7030-2
Publication Date:May 2006
Publisher:Blackstone Audio, Incorporated
Book Format:CD-Audio
List Price:USD $81.00
Book Description:

From the moment his first novel was published, Larry Heinemann joined the ranks of the great chroniclers of the Vietnam conflict: Philip Caputo, Tim O'Brien, and Gustav Hasford.

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...
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Book Details
Detailed Subjects: Fiction / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6.46 x 6.48 x 1.17 Inches
Book Weight:0.71 Pounds
Author Biography
Heinemann, Larry (Author)
Born and raised in Chicago, Larry Heinemann is the author of three novels and numerous short stories and essays. In his novels Close Quarters and Paco's Story, which won the National Book Award for fiction in 1986, Heinemann used his experience as an infantryman with the 25th Division of the U.S. Army in the Vietnam War to relate the horrors of war. The novel Cooler by the Lake, written in 1992, was Heinemann's first attempt at writing a book with a theme other than war.

Heinemann's short stories and essays have appeared in a multitude of journals and magazines, among them Harper's, Playboy, Atlantic Monthly, Entertainment Weekly, Tri-Quarterly, and the Vietnam Writers Association Journal of Arts and Letters. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, The National Endowment for the Arts, and the Illinois Arts Council.

Lecturing and teaching at universities, writer's workshops, and veteran's groups in the United States, Vietnam, England, China, and the Soviet Union have kept Heinemann quite busy, although he still considers himself a "househusband."

Larry Heinemann passed away on December 11, 2019 at the age of 75.

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