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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Grand Central Pub
Publication date August 1, 1983
Binding Paperback
Edition Reprint
Book category Adult Fiction
ISBN-13 9780446311960
ISBN-10 0446311960
Availability§ Out of Print
Original list price $3.50
§As reported by publisher
Summaries and Reviews
Summary
Philip Dosier views and participates in the skirmishes, battles, noise, obscenities, marijuana highs, battlefield racism, spirit of atrocity, and other ingredients of the war in Vietnam and returns home to make his own peace on the banks of the Wabash River
Amazon.com description: Product Description: From the moment his first novel was published, Larry Heinemann joined the ranks of the great chroniclers of the Vietnam conflict—Philip Caputo, Tim O’Brien, and Gustav Hasford.

In the stripped-down unsullied patois of an ordinary soldier, draftee Philip Dosier tells the story of his war. Straight from high school, too young to vote or buy himself a drink, he enters a world of mud and heat, blood and body counts, ambushes and firefights. It is here that he embarks on the brutal downward path to wisdom that awaits every soldier. In the tradition of The Naked and the Dead and The Thin Red Line, Close Quarters is the harrowing story of how a decent kid from Chicago endures an extraordinary trial—and returns profoundly altered to a world on the threshold of change.

Editions
Paperback
Book cover for 9780140085785 Book cover for 9780446311960 Book cover for 9781400076840
 
Reprint edition from Vintage Books (August 9, 2005)
9781400076840 | details & prices | 348 pages | 5.25 × 8.00 × 1.00 in. | 0.60 lbs | List price $17.00
About: Philip Dosier views and participates in the skirmishes, battles, noise, obscenities, marijuana highs, battlefield racism, spirit of atrocity, and other ingredients of the war in Vietnam and returns home to make his own peace on the banks of the Wabash River.
Reprint edition from Viking Pr (November 1, 1986)
9780140085785 | details & prices | 5.25 × 7.75 × 0.75 in. | 0.55 lbs | List price $8.95
About: Philip Dosier views and participates in the skirmishes, battles, noise, obscenities, marijuana highs, battlefield racism, spirit of atrocity, and other ingredients of the war in Vietnam and returns home to make his own peace on the banks of the Wabash River
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Reprint edition from Grand Central Pub (August 1, 1983)
9780446311960 | details & prices | List price $3.50
About: Philip Dosier views and participates in the skirmishes, battles, noise, obscenities, marijuana highs, battlefield racism, spirit of atrocity, and other ingredients of the war in Vietnam and returns home to make his own peace on the banks of the Wabash River
CD/Spoken Word
Book cover for 9780786172771
 
With Richard Ferrone (other contributor) | Unabridged edition from Blackstone Audio Inc (August 1, 2006)
9780786172771 | details & prices | 5.75 × 5.75 × 1.00 in. | 0.60 lbs | List price $26.95
About: Philip Dosier views and participates in the skirmishes, battles, noise, obscenities, marijuana highs, battlefield racism, spirit of atrocity, and other ingredients of the war in Vietnam and returns home to make his own peace on the banks of the Wabash River.
Cassette/Spoken Word
Book cover for 9780786144778
 
With Richard Ferrone (other contributor) | Unabridged edition from Blackstone Audio Inc (August 1, 2006)
9780786144778 | details & prices | 4.00 × 6.25 × 2.75 in. | 0.75 lbs | List price $26.95
About: Philip Dosier views and participates in the skirmishes, battles, noise, obscenities, marijuana highs, battlefield racism, spirit of atrocity, and other ingredients of the war in Vietnam and returns home to make his own peace on the banks of the Wabash River.

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