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-- You have no idea what it was like. For us. The women, I mean. The wives. American women--American wives--have been mostly minor characters in the literature of the Vietnam War, but in Absolution Sixty years later, Charlene's daughter, spurred by an encounter with an aging Vietnam vet, reaches out to Tricia. Together, they look back at their time in Saigon, taking wry account of that pivotal year and of Charlene's altruistic machinations, and discovering how their own lives as women on the periphery--of politics, of history, of war, of their husbands' convictions--have been shaped and burdened by the same sort of unintended consequences that followed America's tragic interference in Southeast Asia. A virtuosic new novel from Alice McDermott, one of our most observant, most affecting writers, about folly and grace, obligation, sacrifice, and, finally, the quest for absolution in a broken world. |
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"A riveting account of women's lives on the margins of the Vietnam War, from the renowned winner of the National Book Award"-- Provided by publisher. |
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Fiction.
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Wives -- Fiction.
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Americans -- Vietnam -- Fiction.
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Female friendship -- Fiction.
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Military spouses -- Fiction.
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Novels.
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Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): McDermott, Alice. Absolution New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2023 9780374610487 (DLC) 2023018757 |
| ISBN |
9780374610494 |
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0374610495 |
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