Humidity Moon

By Michael W. Rodriguez

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1877603546
• ISBN13: 9781877603549
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: Pecan Grove Pr
• Length: 151 Pages
• Weight: 3.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.5" x 0.5" x 5.3"

Customer Reviews

Tells it like it was, the good times and the bad times

Michael Rodriguez' "Humidity Moon" tells the world how we lived, how we felt and how our buddies were closer to us than our own parents, brothers or sisters. It is a must to read, will take you back 30 yrs to a place that cost America a war and the Vietnamese their Nation

HYPNOTIC! DREDGES UP IMAGES FROM THE DARK,SPARKLING REALITY

IT WAS MY HONOR TO HAVE SERVED WITH THIS ANGRY YOUNG MAN,A PROFESSIONAL IN EVERY SENSE OF THE WORD.A GIFTED PERSONALITY AND GREAT MARINE SEMPER FI SGT. I.D.PADILLA tpidp@pacent.com

A stunning first book

Chicano author Michael Rodriguez has written a seminal collection of stories about the American war in Viet Nam. If the great American novel is yet to be written, it may be Rodriguez, from deep in the U.S. Southwest we call Aztlan, who writes it. Orale, Michael. Si se puede.

Ranks among the very best fiction from the Vietnam War

Let me strongly recommend the brand new work by Michael Rodriguez titled "Humidity Moon," published by Pecan Grove Press. Rodriguez presents the clear, respectful, experienced, but none-the-less limited vision of a Marine grunt. I say "limited" in that Rodriguez's first-person narrator is not omniscient; he does not look back with 20-20 hindsight. He sees what grunts saw and translates it into a grunt's reality. The horrid and the mundane of the infantrymam's war come through without apparent embellishment or elaboration. The crisp and simple prose is believable and powerful. It's hard to imagine that this author is writing three decades after his eyes saw, and his mind tried to comprehend, or turn away from, the incomprehensible facts of war. I am a Tim O'Brien fan, and Rodriguez's writing is VERY different, but just as good. This slim volume convinces me that some of that difference is that of an army soldier and a Marine. And I feel I have learned something I never knew about the meaning of being a Marine.

The finest writer of the Vietnam war

The writing is so powerful that I as a (stateside) veteran of the Vietnam war can barely read it. It is too realistic for the faint of heart. And heart-breaking for the sturdy. But this is how it was, and these stories have to be told and read. And the men (and women, in stories still untold) have to be remembered and honored.