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A Dangerous Friend
de Just, Ward
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- ISBN 10
- 0395856981
- ISBN 13
- 9780395856987
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Boston, MA: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1999. Book. New. Quarter Cloth. First Edition. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. New York, NY, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1999. First edition. 8vo. Brown quarter cloth with gilt lettering embossed on spine over flecked tan boards, with textured beige endpapers, 256 pp. A few civilians with bright minds and sunny intentions want to reform Vietnam; but the Vietnam they see isn't the Vietnam that is. Before long, the rampant missteps and misplaced ideals trap them in a moral crossfire. Compelling and thought-provoking! New in new dust jacket, protected by a mylar cover..
Sinopsis
In this, his twelfth novel, Ward Just penetrates more deeply into America's role in the world than he has ever done before. This beautifully constructed large-canvas novel of Saigon in 1965 can be justly compared to Joseph Conrad's NOSTROMO or Graham Greene's THE QUIET AMERICAN. A DANGEROUS FRIEND is a thrilling narrative roiling with intrigue, mayhem, and betrayal. Here is the story of conscience and its consequences among those for whom Vietnam was neither the right fight nor the wrong fight but the only fight. The exotic tropical surroundings, the coarsening and corrupting effects of a colonial regime, the visionary delusions of the American democratizers, all play their part. In A DANGEROUS FRIEND, a few civilians with bright minds and sunny intentions want to reform Vietnam -- but the Vietnam they see isn't the Vietnam that is. Sydney Parade, a political scientist, has left home and family in an effort to become part of something larger than himself, a foreign-aid operation in Saigon. Even before he arrives, he encounters French and Americans who reveal to him the unsettling depths of a conflict he thought he understood -- and in Saigon, the Vietnamese add yet another dimension. Before long, the rampant missteps and misplaced ideals trap Parade and others in a moral crossfire.
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- Título
- A Dangerous Friend
- Autor
- Just, Ward
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Nuevo
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- New
- Edición
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0395856981
- ISBN 13
- 9780395856987
- Editorial
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
- Lugar de publicación
- Boston, MA
- Fecha de publicación
- 1999
- Tamaño
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9&f
- Palabras clave
- VIETNAM WAR DRAMA CONFLICT
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Military History;
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