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 earned his MFA at Brown University, where he won the John Hawkes Award in Fiction. The New Yorker and McSweeney's have both published his stories. He was a PEN/Hemingway Finalist and awarded the Sue Kaufman Prize for Debut Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He currently resides in New York City.
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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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