In Country

Name: In Country
Brand: Harper Audio
Availability: InStock
Rating: 3.25 (4 reviews)
Author: Bobbie Ann Mason
ISBN: 9780062093905

Author: Bobbie Ann Mason

Narrator: Jill Brennan

Unabridged: 9 hr 48 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 05/03/2011

Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Women, Nonfiction, Literary Collections

Synopsis

In the summer of 1984, the war in Vietnam came home to Sam Hughes, whosefather was killed there before she was born. The soldier-boy in the picture never changed. In a way that made him dependable. But he seemed so innocent. ""Astronauts have been to the moon,"" she blurted out to the picture. ""You missed Watergate. I was in the second grade.""She stared at the picture, squinting her eyes, as if she expected it to cometo life. But Dwayne had died with his secrets. Emmett was walking around with his. Anyone who survived Vietnam seemed to regard it as something personal andembarrassing. Granddad had said they were embarrassed that they were still alive. ""I guess you're not embarrassed,"" she said to the picture.This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.

About Bobbie Ann Mason

Bobbie Ann Mason is the author of a number of works of fiction, including The Girl in the Blue Beret, In Country, An Atomic Romance, and Nancy Culpepper. The groundbreaking Shiloh and Other Stories won the PEN Hemingway Award and was shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award, the American Book Award, and the PEN Faulkner Award. Her memoir, Clear Springs, was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. She has won two Southern Book Awards and numerous other prizes, including the O. Henry and the Pushcart. Former writer-in-residence at the University of Kentucky, she lives in Kentucky.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Whitney on November 05, 2017

This book wasn't bad at all and there wasn't anything I particularly disliked about it, it just feel very flat for me. The main character is sorting through identity issues because her father died in Vietnam before she was born so she's trying to learn about Vietnam to unveil some of the secrecy beh......more

Goodreads review by Anne on February 08, 2009

This book has stuck with me since I first read it ten years ago in an American Literature college course. It's a book that, stylistically, probably deserves four stars; there are some awkward jolts in the momentum of the story. But I can't bring myself to lower my perfect rating. I get so attached t......more

Goodreads review by Vanessa on December 09, 2017

"I'll tell you my Vietnam story," Anita said..."One spring weekend in 1969 I was on a bus to Bowling Green going to see my aunt, and some boys got on at Fort Campbell. One of them sat across from me and talked with me. I was reading a book of poetry. This boy tried to read it over my shoulder, and h......more

Goodreads review by Stacy on July 29, 2012

As someone obsessed with Vietnam, the '80s, and strange-girls-coming-of-age stories, I was keen to read this one. And for the first 3/4 of the book, it didn't disappoint. Great heroine, set in the South, lots of references to early MTV, and a gripping central mystery: are Uncle Emmett's health probl......more

Goodreads review by Peacegal on September 28, 2022

The human fallout from the Vietnam War is explored in this thought-provoking novel. Set in the mid-1980s, the story focuses on Sam, a teenager who never met her father, who was killed in action, and her struggles to relate to other family and community members who continue to wrestle with their own......more