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On Leave from Perdition
On Leave from Perdition
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On Leave from Perdition
James thought he could leave the war behind, after all, nearly every aspect of his old life stood there waiting for him. His wife and step-daughter, his home, his job…well not quite the same job--he'd have to start at the bottom again, but really, the most routine aspects and normal circumstances of his life remained.
Only, James himself did not make it back. What came back in his place, a piece of flesh molded over something rotting at its core, could not find normal. The rot festered and bubbled beneath, boiling to the surface in a fury that no one, including James himself, could make sense of. The opium habit he had picked up in Vietnam to drown the fury only added to his problems back home.
What he found himself capable of in war left James wondering if there could be such a thing as redemption, and convinced that no one could continue loving him if they ever learned the secret that his heart found it increasingly difficult to keep.
On Leave from Perdition takes up the story of the converging storm of the collapsing American invasion of Vietnam, the massive anti-war movement back home, and the spectacular G.I. resistance movement within the war itself. In this context the novel explores the disintegration of a human mind under inhuman conditions. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is only the modern clinical term for a condition societies have recognized for thousands of years: war does something destructive to the warrior.
James thought he could leave the war behind, after all, nearly every aspect of his old life stood there waiting for him. His wife and step-daughter, his home, his job…well not quite the same job--he'd have to start at the bottom again, but really, the most routine aspects and normal circumstances of his life remained.
Only, James himself did not make it back. What came back in his place, a piece of flesh molded over something rotting at its core, could not find normal. The rot festered and bubbled beneath, boiling to the surface in a fury that no one, including James himself, could make sense of. The opium habit he had picked up in Vietnam to drown the fury only added to his problems back home.
What he found himself capable of in war left James wondering if there could be such a thing as redemption, and convinced that no one could continue loving him if they ever learned the secret that his heart found it increasingly difficult to keep.
On Leave from Perdition takes up the story of the converging storm of the collapsing American invasion of Vietnam, the massive anti-war movement back home, and the spectacular G.I. resistance movement within the war itself. In this context the novel explores the disintegration of a human mind under inhuman conditions. Post Traumatic Stress Disorder is only the modern clinical term for a condition societies have recognized for thousands of years: war does something destructive to the warrior.
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