With this recitation of paraphernalia and detritus, O'Brien manages to encapsulate the experience of an army and of … - Francine Prose

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How many cares one loses when one decides not to be something but to be someone.

Francine Prose

With this recitation of paraphernalia and detritus, O'Brien manages to encapsulate the experience of an army and of a particular war, of a mined and booby-trapped landscape, of cold nights and hot days, of soaking monsoons and rice paddies, and of the possibility of being shot, like Ted Lavender, suddenly and out of nowhere: not only in the middle of a sentence but in the midst of a subordinate clause.

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