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pldean 's review for:
Dispatches
by Michael Herr
Herr does an incredible job of conveying in prose the unconveyable of war. I first became irritated at his lack of feeling the need to explain every allusion (and he rattles them off in sequence after sequence), then broke through that and realized that's part of not having been there, of being a second-hand hearer about the reality Herr witnessed.
This intense accounting is, along with The Things They Carried, a valuable chronicle of an insane war and an insane decade.
This intense accounting is, along with The Things They Carried, a valuable chronicle of an insane war and an insane decade.