Dancing at the gold monkey
Subtitle: stories
By: Allen Learst
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Leapfrog Press; Distributed in the U.S. by Consortium book Sales and Distribution
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Fredonia, NY; St. Paul, Minn
Language: eng
Number of pages: 141
ISBN-13: 9781935248293
Subjects: Vietnam War, 1961-1975; Veterans; Fiction
Description: A young naval officer crashes his F-16 fighter jet in the South China Sea, forever changing the lives of the five soldiers who find his body. They move through gritty post-Vietnam Detroit with the women they love in this linked collection of psychological drama, sexual escapades, and latent violence tinged with compassion, grief, and love, arriving finally at the death of one man's son in Iraq.