Title: Fatal light
Description: A devastating portrait of war in all its horror, brutality, and mindlessness, this extraordinary novel is written in beautifully cadenced prose. A combat medic in Vietnam faces the chaos of war, set against the tranquil scenes of family life back home in small-town America. This young man’s rite of passage is traced through jungle combat to malaria-induced fever visions to the purgatory of life in military-occupied Saigon. After returning home from war to stay with his grandfather, he confronts his own shattered personal history and the mysterious human capacity for renewal.
Subjects: Fiction, Literature, Vietnam War, 1961-1975, Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975, Medical care, Armed Forces, Medical personnel, Veterans, Fiction, war & military, Vietnam war, 1961-1975, fiction