A Saigon Party: and Other Vietnam War Short Stories
by Diana J. Dell
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Author: Diana J. DellEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2000-04-23
ISBN: 1893652904
Number of pages: 220
Publisher: iUniverse
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Book Review: A truly remarkable book in different perspective than others
Summary: 5 Stars
Miss Dell is a born story-teller, and her stories are like none of the others ever written about regarding the complexity, intrigue, and follies of the Vietnam war. The satire is true and biting, but it is high-time someone such as Dell presents this point of view with the candor that bears all the little known facts about how many Americans and Vietnamese operated during the war that has not been written about. Dell's stories are fast, and the points made are cleverly designed to make you ponder and go back to read them gain and again. "Yep, that's the way it really was, how I always felt like---that's how ol' Mister Charles got over on us Americans and South Vietnamese during the war," I often mused, half-offended that the naked truth was now being written by a witty little blonde whose brother had been killed in Nam, and she had the courage to go see for herself what the war was really all about. The book is a bellringer of truth about the men and women caught up in the drama of war in the exotic world of Asia; as is complex as a tropical night with the moon simmering over the wind-bending jungles and bright gaudy lights of Saigon, while her real life characters just tell it like it was, and leaves you yearning for more stories as the last page is turned. Dell's stories flow in polished cadences of witt, terror, evil, passion, shame, and the sly intellect of the mysterious Eastern way of thinking. The politicans and generals of our side might have been thinking a little different if Dell's compelling views of the way it really was had been written about before the United States involvement in the war. Marvelous storytelling, and laced with unexpected complexities, make this a must read for any person wanting a book that they can disappear for days into and emerge with a much differnet view of the way things were in Nam as presented by the news media and other writers of the era. "A Saigon Party," is an important and literary excellent book that is not to be ignored. Sincerely, Franklin D. Rast, author, "Don's Nam," and "Ghosts In The Wire."
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After her brother Kenny was killed in the Mekong Delta, Diana Dell went to Vietnam with USO. Her short stories are not about battles, blood, gore, or angst. They are about participants of the war other than grunts: war profiteers, disc jockeys, rock stars, landladies, pedicab drivers, movie stars, pickpockets, beggars, journalists, celebrity tourists, and other REMFs. Irreverent, outrageous, cynical, satirical, intelligent, and insightful are a few of the words used to describe A Saigon Party (And Other Vietnam War Short Stories).War Books
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