Remembering Heaven's Face: A Story of Rescue in Wartime Vietnam / Edition 1

by John Balaban

Overview

I volunteered to go to Vietnam, but as a conscientious objector to war. . . . While most of these events took place in the midst of the war, this is not exactly a story about the war, but a story of rescue. Most of the children I helped save—scalped, burned, blasted, or shot when I found them—are now adults, parents or even grandparents themselves. . . . And while many of my funny, wise, reckless, young American friends of those days are dead, what they did and what they learned is not. It is as if all of us were being watched, all of us journeying under a brilliant blue sky that is the face of heaven.—from the preface

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780820324159
Publisher:	University of Georgia Press
Publication date:	05/06/2002
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.88(d)

About the Author

JOHN BALABAN is the author of eleven books of poetry and prose, including Locusts at the Edge of Summer, winner of the 1998 William Carlos Williams Award, and the popular and critical success Spring Essence: The Poetry of Ho Xuan Huong. His poetry, translations, and fiction have received wide acclaim, including two National Book Award nominations. He is Poet-in-Residence and professor of English at North Carolina State University.

JOHN BALABAN is the author of eleven books of poetry and prose, including Locusts at the Edge of Summer, winner of the 1998 William Carlos Williams Award, and the popular and critical success Spring Essence: The Poetry of Ho Xuan Huong. His poetry, translations, and fiction have received wide acclaim, including two National Book Award nominations. He is Poet-in-Residence and professor of English at North Carolina State University.

Editorial Reviews

Unforgettably lyrical.

New Yorker

Remarkable . . . exceptionally well written and moving . . . Few other writers have evoked the physical world of South Vietnam as well as Balaban does in this book.

USA Today

Remarkable . . . exceptionally well written and moving . . . Few other writers have evoked the physical world of South Vietnam as well as Balaban does in this book.

USA Today

Unforgettably lyrical.

New Yorker

"Remarkable . . . exceptionally well written and moving . . . Few other writers have evoked the physical world of South Vietnam as well as Balaban does in this book."—USA Today

“Unforgettably lyrical."—New Yorker

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