EAN: 9781784708481

THE VOLUNTEER - SALVATORE SCIBONA TASCHENBUCH

An odyssey of loss and salvation ranging across four generations of fathers and sons  in the
finest tradition of American storytelling. The year is 1966 and a young man named Vollie Frade
almost on a whim  enlists in the United States Marine Corps to fight in Vietnam. Breaking
definitively from his rural Iowan parents  Vollie puts in motion a chain of events that sees
him go to work for people with intentions he cannot yet grasp. From the Cambodian jungle  to a
flophouse in Queens  to a commune in New Mexico  Vollie's path traces a secret history of life
on the margins of America  culminating with an inevitable and terrible reckoning. Scibona's
story of a restless soldier pressed into service for a clandestine branch of the US government
unfolds against the backdrop of the seismic shifts in global politics of the second half of the
twentieth century. Epic in scope but intimate in feeling  this is a deeply immersive read from
a rising star of American fiction.

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