Buffalo Afternoon: A Novel
"Remarkable....The entire Vietnam experience [in] one epic narrative."—New York Times Book ReviewBuffalo Afternoon is the story of three generations of the Bravado family—Italian American, working-class, determined, proud, troubled. At the heart of this enthralling novel is Pete, a Vietnam vet...
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"Remarkable....The entire Vietnam experience [in] one epic narrative."—New York Times Book ReviewBuffalo Afternoon is the story of three generations of the Bravado family—Italian American, working-class, determined, proud, troubled. At the heart of this enthralling novel is Pete, a Vietnam vet whose fate is shaped by his grandfather's beliefs about America and reshaped by a cataclysm of American history. Reading group guide included.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780393325225 (0393325229)
ASIN: 0393325229
Publish date: 2004-02
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Pages no: 544
Edition language: English
The different chapters switch between different times and places, but they are all about Pete, as a child and as a Vietnam veteran. The first chapter is beautiful - in its description of rice paddies, water buffalo and village life there in Vietnam. Then in chapter two it is after the war. Look at t...
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