{"product_id":"memorial-days-vietnam-stories-1973-2022-9781682831793","title":"Memorial Days: Vietnam Stories, 1973-2022","description":"The conflict in Vietnam has been rewritten and reframed\u003cbr\u003einto many corners of American life and has long shadowed contemporary political\u003cbr\u003escience and foreign policy. The war and its aftermath have engendered\u003cbr\u003eaward-winning films and books. It has held up a mirror to the twentieth century\u003cbr\u003eand to the wars of the twenty-first. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSet in wartime Vietnam and contemporary Vietnam, in\u003cbr\u003ewartime America and in America today, the stories that comprise \u003ci\u003eMemorial Days\u003c\/i\u003e were written from 1973 to\u003cbr\u003ethe present. As our continuing reappraisals of the war's shadow have unspooled\u003cbr\u003eover the last half-decade, so too has Wayne Karlin returned to the subject in\u003cbr\u003ehis fiction, collected and published together here for the first time. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA girl in Maryland runs away from Civil War reenactors\u003cbr\u003eshe imagines to be American soldiers in Vietnam, while a woman in Vietnam hides\u003cbr\u003ein the jungle from an American helicopter and another tries to bury the relics\u003cbr\u003eof the war. A man mourns a friend lost in Iraq while a helicopter crewman in\u003cbr\u003eQuang Tri loads the broken and dead into his aircraft. Extras playing soldiers\u003cbr\u003ein a war film in present-day Vietnam model themselves after other war films\u003cbr\u003ewhile a Marine in a war sees himself as a movie character. A snake coiled\u003cbr\u003earound the collective control of a helicopter in Vietnam uncoils in a soldier\u003cbr\u003ecome home from Iraq. The chronology is the chronology of dreams or nightmares\u003cbr\u003eor triggered flashbacks: images and incidents triggering other images and\u003cbr\u003eincidents in a sequence that seems to make no sense--which is exactly the sense\u003cbr\u003eit makes. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSome stories burn with the fresh experiences of a Marine witnessing\u003cbr\u003ewar firsthand. Some stories radiate a long-abiding grief. All the stories\u003cbr\u003ereflect and reconfigure the Vietnam War as it echoes into the present century, \u003cbr\u003eunder the light of retrospection.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=AUTH-13123273\"\u003eWayne Karlin\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Texas Tech University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/29\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 216\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.65lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.45d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781682831793\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1682831795\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC Categories:\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC041000\"\u003eBiographical\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC029000\"\u003eShort Stories (single author)\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e- \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=CAT-FIC\"\u003eFiction\u003c\/a\u003e | \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/sureshotbooks-com.myshopify.com\/search?type=product%2Carticle%2Cpage\u0026amp;q=BISAC-FIC032000\"\u003eWar \u0026amp; Military\u003c\/a\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Texas Tech University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44486331498733,"sku":"9781682831793","price":26.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0550\/8097\/6621\/products\/img_15af6904-4f14-45c9-982d-32f88ce64873.jpg?v=1700817182","url":"https:\/\/sureshotbooks.com\/products\/memorial-days-vietnam-stories-1973-2022-9781682831793","provider":"SureShot Books Publishing LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}