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IN COUNTRY - BOBBIE A MASON KARTONIERT (TB)

Bobbie Ann Mason's debut novel-a brilliant and moving book... a moral tale that entwines public
history with private anguish. -Los Angeles Times Book ReviewHow Ms. Mason conjures a vivid
image of the futility of war and its searing legacy of confusion out of the searching questions
or a naïve later generation is nothing short of masterful. -Kansas City StarSamantha Sam Hughes
is in her senior year of high school in rural Kentucky. Her father  whom she never knew  was
killed in Vietnam before she was born. Sam lives with her uncle Emmett  a veteran who appears
to be suffering from exposure to Agent Orange. Amidst worrying about her uncle and yearning to
figure out who she is and learn about the father she never knew  Sam develops feelings for Tom
one of Emmett's veteran buddies. Tom and Emmett attempt to shield Sam from the truth of what
they endured  but she has become convinced that her life is bound to the war in Vietnam. In
Country is both a powerful and touching novel of America's ghosts and a beautiful portrayal of
a family  not unlike many others  left bruised and twisted by the war. At the time of its
publication in 1985  Richard Eder's rave LA Times review concluded: One of the questions for
post-war American literature  dealt with variously by Updike  Cheever  Roth  Salinger and a
host of others  is whether the larger capacities of the human spirit can be exercised  so to
speak  in a motel room equipped with color TV and a drinks refrigerator. The answers vary 
Mason has found her own striking variety of 'yes.'

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