The volunteer
Scibona, Salvatore2019
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The year is 1966 and a young man named Vollie Frade, almost on a whim, enlists in the United States Marine Corps to fight in Vietnam. Breaking definitively from his rural Iowan parents, Vollie puts in motion a chain of events that sees him go to work for people with intentions he cannot yet grasp. From the Cambodian jungle, to a flophouse in Queens, to a commune in New Mexico, Vollie's path traces a secret history of life on the margins of America, culminating with an inevitable and terrible reckoning. Scibona's story of a restless soldier pressed into service for a clandestine branch of the US government unfolds against the backdrop of the seismic shifts in global politics of the second half of the twentieth century.
Main title:
The volunteer / Salvatore Scibona.
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Imprint:
London : Jonathan Cape, 2019.
Collation:
418 pages ; 25 cm
ISBN:
9781787330795 (hbk)
Dewey class:
FICTION
Language:
English
BRN:
2795549
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