Fragments

By Jack Fuller

Book Overview

Fragments is a story about how war can make everything explosive-even love-and how two friends try to put the pieces of their lives together again.

" Fragments] makes the usual semi-autobiographical account of the Vietnam War] . . . seem flimsy and discursive in comparison. . . . The shapeliness and sense of larger design is] so elegantly executed in Fragments."-Michiko Kakutani, New York Times

"The plot is believable, the characters sharply drawn, the prose clean and distinctive. . . . Stand s] with Tim O'Brien's Going After Cacciato, James Webb's Fields of Fire, Josiah Bunting's The Lionheads and John Del Vecchio's The 13th Valley. . . . A strong, compelling novel."-Marc Leepson, Washington Post

"There have been many books on Vietnam, and there will be many others. This is more a novel than the rest. . . . Fuller has reassembled the exploded grenade."-Bob MacDonald, Boston Sunday Globe

"Should our children ask about Vietnam, we would not go wrong to place this book in their hands. . . . Fragments] purveys more than information-it gives the war a literary form."-David Myers, New York Times

"The best novel yet about the Vietnam War. . . . It ranks with Norman Mailer's The Naked and the Dead and James Jones's From Here to Eternity."-Daniel Kornstein, Wall Street Journal

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226268861
• ISBN13: 9780226268866
• Release Date: December 1997
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 4.8" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

An excellent story during the Vietnam War

A breathtaking story bout a group of Soldiers in Vietnam. Fuller made me care about the soldiers and the villiagers that the soldiers wee trying to help.