Cover of The Vietnam Plays, Vol. 1: The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel / Sticks and Bones

The Vietnam Plays, Vol. 1: The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel / Sticks and Bones

The Vietnam Plays series

The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel is the story of a native recruit's initiation into war, by turns brutal and hilarious. In Sticks and Stones, a blinded Vietnam veteran returns home numbed by the war and is astonished by his family's inability to comprehend their country's politics and his rage.—From publisher description.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 208 pages

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