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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... side to side, its breath coming in great rapid gulps, its belly expanding tremendously with every breath like a balloon. The shot had been low, exiting from the abdomen. Seaman Houston.
... side to side like someone following the progress of some kind of conversation, some kind of debate, some kind of struggle that the jungle—the morning— the moment-was having with itself. Seaman Houston walked over to the monkey and laid ...
... the Mekong Delta, or even in his uncle's home in Saigon. “What do you want?” the girl said. She was very contemptuous of him. “I don't know,” he said. “Take off your clothes.” They took off their clothes and lay side by side.
A Novel Denis Johnson. They took off their clothes and lay side by side on the double bed in the dark, and did nothing else. He could hear an American sailor a few doors down talking to one of his friends loudly, perhaps telling a story ...
... side of Hao's shoulders and heaved himself to his knees, and Hao was able to fill his lungs. The colonel stood up like a very old man and bent to grip the soldier's arm. “Nothing happening, son.” The soldier was deaf. “Get up. Get up ...
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