On The Way Home

By Robert Bausch

Book Overview

Imagine the elation of having your dead son brought back to life. That is what Michael Sumner's parents experience when, one year after he's reported killed in action in Vietnam, they are told their son is alive and has escaped from a cadre of Viet Cong. But reunited with his family in their new Florida home, Michael has become a stranger to them, and soon living with him becomes more difficult than having him dead. Attempting to break into his suffering and get him back, fearful he may turn to violence, his parents suspect the worst when a young woman who has befriended Michael abruptly disappears.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807126381
• ISBN13: 9780807126387
• Release Date: February 2012
• Publisher: Louisiana State University Press
• Length: 334 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

Gorgeous

I don't know how I missed this when it came out.

The best novel to come out of the Vietnam War.

As the best novel of the Civil War was written by Stephen Crane, who wasn't there, so this brilliant exploration into the aftermath of war comes to us from an author who, at the time he wrote the book, had never been outside the continental United States. It is a novel that John Gardner said was "the kind of novel Hemingway might have written, had he lived to see the way we make war now."