Dear Mr. President

A bracing amalgamation of devastating humor and brilliant cultural observation, in which Gabe Hudson fearlessly explores the darker implications of American military power.

"Weird, wonderful, and worrisome." --The Washington Post Book World

"Dear Mr. President is a war book like no other. It's as if Salvador Dali had rewritten All Quiet on the Western Front." --USA Today

Everybody's Gulf War Syndrome is a little bit different. Or so believes Larry, who returns home from Desert Storm to find his hair gone and his bones rapidly disintegrating. Then there's Lance Corporal James Laverne of the US Marines, who grows a third ear in Kuwait. And in the audaciously comic novella "Notes from a Bunker Along Highway 8," a Green Beret deserts his team after seeing a vision of George Washington, only to find a new calling--administering aid to wounded Iraqi civilians; he's hindered only by the furtive nature of his mission and an unruly band of chimpanzees.

Author: Gabe Hudson
Publisher: Vintage Contemporaries
Published: 11/11/2003
Pages: 156
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.40lbs
Size: 8.04h x 5.22w x 0.46d
ISBN13: 9780375713408
ISBN10: 0375713409
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Short Stories (single author)
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | War & Military

About the Author
Gabe Hudson received his MFA from Brown University, where he was awarded the John Hawkes Prize in Fiction. His fiction has been published in The New Yorker and McSweeney's. He has received the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and was a PEN/Hemingway Finalist. He lives in New York City.