Paco's Story: A Novel
 

Paco's Story: A Novel (Vintage Contemporaries)

by Larry Heinemann

Paco Sullivan is the only man in Alpha Company to survive a cataclysmic Viet Cong attack on Fire Base Harriette in Vietnam. Everyone else is annihilated. When a medic finally rescues Paco almost two days later, he is waiting to die, flies and maggots covering his burnt, shattered body. He winds up back in the US with his legs full of pins, daily rations of Librium and Valium, and no sense of... (read more)

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Paco is the only survivor of his company in the Vietnam War. Now he is travelling around, injured and damaged, looking for work. Dishwashing offers some solace, until the girl across the street catches his attention. For a war story, this is quiet, more about the aftermath than the war itself.

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