Meditations in Green
“Takes one’s breath away.” —The Wall Street Journal“Brilliant, scarifying . . . extravagant, rhapsodic and horrific. . . . It has an overwhelming impact.” —New York Times Book Review“Precisely that brutal hallucination we desperately wanted to end.” —Don DeLillo“Profoundly moving . . . . [This] book lingers, hauntingly, in the memory.” —Newsday“The best that any fiction about this war has offered.” –Newsweek“Wright evokes a new historical truth about Vietnam . . . vivid with the rapture and terror of apocalypse.” –San Francisco Chronicle“Unholy brilliance and pain andCatch-22lunacy.” –Gloria Emerson, author ofWinners & Losers: Battles, Retreats, Gains, Losses, and Ruins from the Vietnam War“Stylistically, Mr. Wright uses short bursts of soaring language between the longer passages of the narrative. He calls his literary riffs ‘meditations’–free flights of imaginative prose. Anyone who has seen the lush foliage of wartime Vietnam–the contrasting bursts of orange flame rising out of the green jungle–will know what an inspired, and accurate, metaphor Mr. Wright has created.” –The New York Times“Shockingly vivid . . . the raw power of one man’s remembered experiences can still put you away.” –Penthouse“The first fiction about Vietnam that moved me to pity and tears.” –Richard Elman, National Public Radio“Possibly the best story yet to come out of the Vietnam War.” –Publishers Weekly