Dear Mr. President by Gabe Hudson

Dear Mr. President by Gabe Hudson

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. Together these narratives form a bracing amalgamation of devastating humor and brilliant cultural observation, in which Gabe Hudson fearlessly explores the darker implications of American military power.

Gabe Hudson is the author of Dear Mr. President, a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award and winner of the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. It was one of GQ's Ten Best Books of the Year, The Village Voice's 25 Best Books of the Year, a St. Louis Post-Dispatch Best Book of the Year, and a New York Times New & Notable Paperback. Hudson was named one of Granta's 20 Best of Young American Novelists. He was a recipient of the Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University, the John Hawkes Prize in Fiction from Brown University, and the Adele Steiner Burleson Award in Fiction from the University of Texas at Austin. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times Magazine, BuzzFeed, The Village Voice, McSweeney's, Black Book, and Granta. He was a contributing writer to Six Feet Under: Better Living Through Death, edited by Alan Ball. For many years, he was Editor-at-Large for McSweeney's. He attended The University of Texas and received his MFA from Brown University. Hudson taught in Princeton University's Creative Writing Program and was founding Chair of the Creative Writing Program at Yonsei University in Seoul, Korea. Originally from Austin, he now lives in Brooklyn.

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ISBN 13	9780375713408
ISBN 10	0375713409
Title	Dear Mr. President
Author	Gabe Hudson
Series	Vintage Contemporaries
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Vintage
Year published	2003-11-11
Number of pages	176
Prizes	Short-listed for PEN New England/Hemingway Foundation Award 2003
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