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Life During Wartime

(S.F.Masterworks S.)

By Lucius Shepard

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| Paperback | 9780575077348

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Book Description

David Mingolla is one of many drug-pumped grunts slugging it out in the rotten jungles of Guatemala, an expendable pawn in an endless, amoral war. Then he meets Debora, an enigmatic young woman who may be working for the enemy, and stumbles into the deadly war zone of psychic conflict where the mindContinue

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As much love as war

Many reviews out there on the Intertubes focus on the resonance of this tale with elements of the real Cold War, Reagan's interventions in Central America, and, of course, Vietnam. It has reflections of all these facets but for me this is above all a book about longing, and the dichotomy of self and ... (continue)

Many reviews out there on the Intertubes focus on the resonance of this tale with elements of the real Cold War, Reagan's interventions in Central America, and, of course, Vietnam. It has reflections of all these facets but for me this is above all a book about longing, and the dichotomy of self and the beloved, measures of the unrequited, and the morbid, persistent hold the external world has on our inner lives.

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