| View Larger Image | The Speed of Light | Paperbackby Javier Cercas (Author), Anne McLean (Translator)
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| | Binding: | Paperback | | Publisher: | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC | | Page Count: | 288 Pages | | Publication Date: | August 06, 2007 | | Sales Rank: | 758,465th |
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An aspiring young writer from Spain begins work as a teaching assistant on a Midwestern campus and finds himself sharing an office with Rodney Falk, a taciturn Vietnam veteran of strange ways and few friends. But when Rodney suddenly disappears the narrator becomes obsessed with discovering the secrets of his past. Why do people fear Rodney? What traumatic event happened at My Khe during the war? And, when the narrator's life takes a terrible twist, is Rodney the only person in the world who can save him? |
CUSTOMER REVIEWS (Average Customer Rating: 5.0 based on 1 review)
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The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, but in ourselves... by Youkali (Seattle)  5 Stars
October 19, 2007
I can't think of a better novel about Viet Nam, or, for that matter, about all the wars since Korea. And it's set in Urbana and Barcelona. I'd say go figure, but then GUARD OF HONOR, perhaps the best novel about WWII, was set in Florida. Maybe it's because Moltke the Elder was right when he said "Everything in war is very simple." Life is different.
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