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The Vietnam War memoir has been harder than expected to find. tim o'brien is probably the famous name of the genre, but as it turns out, he is writing fictionalizations. Guns Up! is strong and full-throated in its one way. Enter Tobias Wolff. At first echoing will manchester's (ww2 vet) seemingly distant /dissociated/ even perverse confrontation with the absurdities and hollowness of war, Wolff quickly gets involved in a slightly mournful but at times mordant dissection of military realities. He...
War stories are really my brother's forte, but I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It's a memoir of Vietnam, and because I read it for a Creative Non-Fiction class, I'm left wondering whether a few things actually happened. Is truth crazier than fiction?I also really loved the interjections of writerly advice within the narrative, and wish Wolff would have given us more. A young man overseas, always with a novel in the back of his head. In many ways, I related. In many ways, I found truth within his...
The Soul of AmericaMany reasons have been given for the failure of the US in its war Vietnam and the significance of that event: misunderstood interests, cultural arrogance, silly military strategies, ill-informed tactics, and adverse domestic politics, among others. But Wolff provides a far more compelling reason and more profound meaning: the spiritual corruption of the US Army, a condition which likely reflected that of the country as a whole.By any standard the country of South Vietnam was a...
The boomers who lived through the Vietnam era, this book it’s very close to Nurse and it starts really in accurately underscores the real problem is those days.Many won’t understand how difficult it is for young man as a second lieutenant and no leader ship skills was put them self in charge of a group Vietnam.Who is this is very accurate coming away stories for the 60s some parts of the country were highly patriotic and went off to war; some it was a better deal to protest according to their co...
Only one of the best short stories writers alive today. This is killer.
Nobody Knows the Trouble I've Been (except me)Honesty is like "Nude Descending a Staircase". Was she really going down ? Maybe it was only a pose, she was really headed up. And how nude did she get ? Maybe the artist just imagined the last part. But the picture stands as a lasting, but unclear, monument to a certain moment. As we strip away our motivations for doing things, as we take account of all the moods and history that lie behind the smallest of our actions, may we not-----even we------ge...
Wolff is one of the acknowledged masters of American short fiction, an award winning author and professor of creative writing, so it is unlikely that his memoir of Vietnam would be anything but good. And it is very good.Wolff went to war because he had run out of options in civilian life, but out of options in a genteel kind of 1960s way. He was expelled from an elite boarding school in his final semester, signed up a as merchant sailor and then missed his boat, and the Army always needed bodies...
I've never heard of Wolff's In Pharaoh's Army before. When a friend recommended the book (right after he binged read it) I was interested, but doubtful. However, once I started reading I was pulled into the strong, reminiscent story about the experiences of war.In Pharaoh's Army reads like a collection of short stories, each one with value. A collection of memories of a young officer's experiences in Vietnam, working as an adviser in the Delta. Each story diverts into a secondary path, then wind...
An incredibly honest look of a mans participation in Vietnam and his life before and after his service. While there isnt much focus on descriptions of combat, the authors haunting flow of honest writing makes up for it. He examines the human struggle involved cadidly, the good and the bad. The flux of emotions and the changing of how one views others during combat. Superb but short book.
Written with the all of the concision and clarity that he brings to his fiction, "In Pharaoh's Army" ascertains Wolff's ability to turn life experiences into dynamic storytelling. Wolff's first memoir - and his most famous book - "This Boy's Life" recounts Wolff's childhood with his itinerate mother and doltishly abusive step-father. And "In Pharaoh's Army" reads as a continuation of "This Boy's Life"; Wolff's feelings of inadequecy and fraudulence appear in their grownup forms in this story as
Way too many rewards from reading this book to even mention. His sentences, both in fiction and non fiction, are some of the best I've ever read. It's like listening to a smarter person than you've ever known, speak with a poetic frankness absolutely void of sanctimony. And there are several passages/lines in this one that'll keep you thinking for days.
