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092    |fF|aGREEN 
100 1  Green, Mack,|eauthor. 
245 10 Frank's bloody books /|cMack Green. 
264  1 [Nashville, Tennessee] :|bApril Gloaming Publishing,
       |c[2023] 
300    228 pages ;|c21 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
520    Cruelty and abuse from his Southern past follow Jack "Half
       -Pint" Crowe into the Vietnam War. Two tours of combat 
       inflict physical wounds and moral damage, but they also 
       deliver the ministrations of a Navy corpsman named Frank-a
       holy being who reads mysterious books and befriends Jack, 
       coaxing him inward toward his own wholeness. When Frank is
       killed in battle, an anguished Half-Pint removes three 
       blood-stained books from Frank's shredded pack.    Those 
       books and his vow of nonviolence carry the Marine home to 
       the swampy borderland of Louisiana and Arkansas. In that 
       summer of return, Half-Pint plunges back into the 
       atmosphere of hell he had longed to escape for good. 
       Hunted by the fanatical Calvin Whitehead after offering 
       help to his wife and son, his vow of nonviolence is 
       challenged in the murky swamplands of the Southern 
       grotesque. He takes refuge in his new oil rig coworkers, a
       misfit cast of no-gooders on the verge of insanity brought
       on by the harsh conditions of their job and the undying 
       meaninglessness of a life spent cheating death amid the 
       pulse of true American blue collar work life.  It is 
       through these folds we see the illumination of Half-Pint's
       evermoving quest for truth and meaning. Guided by Frank's 
       bloodstained books, Half-Pint must shred all he knows to 
       find the thing missing in all of us. 
650  0 Vietnam War, 1961-1975|vFiction. 
650  0 Vietnam War, 1961-1975|xVeterans|vFiction. 
651  0 Louisiana|vFiction.