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The Father of All Things: A Marine, His Son, and the Legacy of Vietnam - Tom Bissell - Google Книги

The cabinetry is all chocolaty wood, the countertops a hard Formica blaze of orange, a room that seems dark even when it is blazingly illumed. At last fuck it you switch off the overhead light, the sound of your own heart more audible while you stand in charcoal shadow. You stare at the kitchen table. Two ashtrays, one on each end of the table, form twin pyres of your wife Muff's lipsticked butts. An empty baby bottle, its sides still cloudy with clinging breast milk. A tall red, white, and blue can of Budweiser, its top-popped aperture keyhole-shaped.

You know it is urine warm and half full before you even touch it. Your live-in younger brother Paul's, no doubt. Muff claims to see Paul only when he is "drunk, sleeping, or hung over. What can you do?

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The lazy Susan and its cargo of gift-shop jetsam, souvenirs from trips you no longer remember: A neatly planed pile of mail awaits you on the table's corner. All of it adding up to life, one little corner in a seven-year repository of marriage. You do not even look through the He lives in Rome. Reviews - Starred review from November 20, In his fourth book, journalist and fiction writer Bissell Chasing the Sea revisits the much-trodden territory of the Vietnam War to offer a fresh perspective: On assignment for GQ magazine, Bissell and his ex-Marine father, John, retrace the elder Bissell's tour of duty through a now mostly peaceful and prosperous Vietnam.

The first of the book's three sections narrates the historical leadup to Saigon's fall in , spliced with Bissell's imagined vision of his family on the night Saigon fell his parents' marriage was rapidly collapsing due to John's postwar trauma and alcoholism. Next comes an exhaustively researched history of the war—including a harrowing retelling of the My Lai massacre, during which civilians were brutally murdered by crazed American soldiers—within the narrative of the father-son trip, aided by Truong and Hien, their entertaining and illuminating Vietnamese tour guides.

As Bissell repeatedly presses his father to confess regrets about Vietnam, the two push toward an ambivalent sense of closure on national and personal wounds. A final, less effective, section gathers testimonials from American and Vietnamese veterans' children. This humorous memoir, travelogue and accessible history—the author's most ambitious book—confirms Bissell's status as a rising star of American literature. The Father of All Things is a one-of-a-kind accomplishment. Bissell's powerful writing forces one to open one's eyes and take in the enormity of the moral abyss.

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Tom Bissell is superb. His description of today's Vietnam are breathtaking and deep. Bissell brings a luminous prose style and, perhaps more important, a clear, fresh eye to events that many of us have allowed to slip into the infuriatingly painful past. Mar 25, OverDrive Read File size: File sharing or redistribution is prohibited.

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