Who Shot the Water Buffalo?

By Ken Babbs

Book Overview

Lieutenants Tom Huckelbee ("leathery as any Texican come crawling out of the sage") and Mike Cochran ("loquacious son of an Ohio gangster") make an unlikely pair of of?cers training to be helicopter pilots in Vietnam. Their only aim is to get through this disorienting war without losing their minds. This is a bullet-straight story, a hallucinatory journey with a fearlessly unconventional voice. Babbs brilliantly portrays the world through the eyes of a young man discovering what it means to be beholden to another. This novel, acclaimed as "a cross between Joseph Heller and Hunter S. Thompson" (Booklist), is a riveting and very funny exploration of war and friendship, and a book not to be missed.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1590207335
• ISBN13: 9781590207338
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Abrams, Inc.
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.4" x 8.0"
• Age Range: 18 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grade 12