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A carregar... Message from Nam (1990)por Danielle Steel
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Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se irá gostar deste livro. Ainda não há conversas na Discussão sobre este livro. I served one tour in Vietnam. I choose this book because of the title. I read the eBook version from Libby (12:59). The story mentions when Martha Raye and her troop came to Vietnam. I was there at the time. She came to Cat Lai where we ran a twenty-four hour a day port operation unloading ammunition from ocean going vessels anchored in the river. Cat Lai was an old French seaplane base with a huge hanger. The GIs set up a temporary stage in the hanger where Martha Raye performed. The book covers events during the many years of the war while telling the story of newspaper correspondent Paxton Andrews. I read this while pregnant with my youngest, and I cried through most of it. Well, about a third of the way through I started crying and didn't stop until the end. Maybe the pregnancy hormones had something to do with it, but I think this would be emotional for anyone to read. Beautiful characters, heartbreaking yet also heartwarming story. I'd read again. sem críticas | adicionar uma crítica
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As a journalist, Paxton Andrews would experience Vietnam firsthand. We follow her from high school in Savannah to college in Berkeley and then to work in Saigon. For the soldiers she knew and met there, Viet Nam would change their lives in ways they could never have imagined. For the men in her life, Viet Nam would change their lives in ways hey could not escape or deny. Peter Wilson, fresh from law school, was a new recruit who would confont his fate in Da Nang. Ralph Johnson, a seasoned AP correspondent, had been in Saigon since the beginning. He knew Vietnam and the war inside out. Bill Quinn, captain of the Cu Chi tunnel rats, was on his fourth tour of duty and it seemed nothing could touch him. Sergeant Tony Campobello had come to Vietnam from the streets of New York to vent a rage that had followed him all the way to Saigon. For seven years Paxton Andrews would write an acclaimed newspaper column from the front before finally returning to the States and then attending the Paris peace talks. But for her and the men who fought in Viet Nam, life would never be the same again. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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Google Books — A carregar... GénerosSistema Decimal de Melvil (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999Classificação da Biblioteca do Congresso dos EUA (LCC)AvaliaçãoMédia:
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This one is about southern belle Paxton, who decides to break from the southern belle tradition of women who know their place and goes to Berkeley for school during the height of the 1960s varying movements. There she falls for Peter, a older student going to law school and son of a newspaper magnate. Their love is blossoming but Pax won't stay tied down, dedicating her life to being a journalism major, not even to the man she loves. Then Peter gets drafted and ultimately killed, which breaks her heart because marriage could have saved him. That's what takes Paxton and her career to the battlefields of Vietnam. A search/hunt/suicide mission searching for Peter's ghost turns Pax into a seasoned journalist who finally gets what she wishes for, a life far away from southern gentility and one that shows her what life and the United States is all about.
Good book and an equally good adaptation movie starring Rue MacClanahan, Esther Rolle, and Hope Lange. ( )