Tree of Smoke: A NovelFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 2007 M09 4 - 624 páginas Once upon a time there was a war . . . and a young American who thought of himself as the Quiet American and the Ugly American, and who wished to be neither, who wanted instead to be the Wise American, or the Good American, but who eventually came to witness himself as the Real American and finally as simply the Fucking American. That's me. |
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... asked. “Excuse.” Sam tilted his head toward the radio, concentrating on its sound like a blind man. “They caught the guy.” “They said that before breakfast. We knew that.” “There's more about him.” “Okay,” Houston said. He drank some ...
... asked the young captain, “Well, is it a war over there, or what? War?—budda-budda-budda.” He made his two hands into a submachine gun, jerking them in unison. “Yes? No?” The captain turned from the American, formed the phrases in his ...
... asked. “I like the Lucky Strike,” he said, and everybody laughed. Suddenly Sam looked at young Seaman Houston as if just recognizing him and said, “Where's my rifle?” For a heartbeat Houston had no idea what he might be talking about ...
... asked his brother, “are we fucked up or something? Every time we get together, something bad happens.” “I know.” “Something fucked-up.” “Fucked-up, shitty, I know. Because we're family.” “We're blood.” “None of that shit don't matter to ...
... asked Minh if a war was actually being waged somewhere in Vietnam. That night the colonel wanted to switch girls, and Minh determined that he would follow through as he had last night, just to make the colonel happy and to show him that ...
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