Fatal Light
By Richard Currey
- Publication Year (This Edition): 1997
- Year of First Publication: 1997
- Publication Type: Book
- Language: English
- ISBN-13: 9780395859957
- Library: Pusthakalaya · Washington, D. C.
- Publisher: Mariner Books
- Place of Publication: Boston
- Original Price: 12.00 USD
A devastating portrait of war in all its horror, brutality, and mindlessness, this extraordinary novel is written in beautifully cadenced prose. A combat medic in Vietnam faces the chaos of war, set against the tranquil scenes of family life back home in small-town America. This young man’s rite of passage is traced through jungle combat to malaria-induced fever visions to the purgatory of life in military-occupied Saigon. After returning home from war to stay with his grandfather, he confronts his own shattered personal history and the mysterious human capacity for renewal.