Paco's story
By: Larry Heinemann.
Edition: 1st Vintage Contemporaries ed.
Publisher: Vintage Contemporaries
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 209
Subjects: Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975 -- Veterans -- Fiction; Massacres -- Fiction; Texas -- Fiction
Genres: Fiction.
Description: Paco Sullivan is the only man in Alpha Company to survive a cataclysmic Viet Cong attack on Fire Base Harriette in Vietnam. Everyone else is annihilated. When a medic finally rescues Paco almost two days later, he is waiting to die, flies and maggots covering his burnt, shattered body. He winds up back in the US with his legs full of pins, daily rations of Librium and Valium, and no sense of what to do next. One evening, on the tail of a rainstorm, he limps off the bus and into the small town of Boone, determined to find a real job and a real bed-but no matter how hard he works, nothing muffles the anguish in his mind and body.
Notes: Originally published: New york : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1986.