Scan barcode
A review by whimsicalmeerkat
Dispatches by Michael Herr
5.0
"I think that Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods."
Michael Herr takes a complicated, fucked up war and tells of something both more and less than what anyone could imagine, let alone write. In the same way the The Things They Carried tells us that all war stories are true and none are true, Dispatches speaks of the impossible mingling of beauty and horror, love and hate that characterizes any telling of Vietnam that goes beyond dry history. Perhaps of any war.
Michael Herr takes a complicated, fucked up war and tells of something both more and less than what anyone could imagine, let alone write. In the same way the The Things They Carried tells us that all war stories are true and none are true, Dispatches speaks of the impossible mingling of beauty and horror, love and hate that characterizes any telling of Vietnam that goes beyond dry history. Perhaps of any war.