Matterhorn is a marvel--a living, breathing book with Lieutenant Waino Mellas and the men of Bravo Company at its raw and battered heart. Karl Marlantes doesn't introduce you to Vietnam in his brilliant war epic--he unceremoniously drops you into the jungle, disoriented and dripping with leeches, with only the newbie lieutenant as your guide. Mellas is a bundle of anxiety and ambition, a college kid who never imagined being part of a "war that none of his friends thought was worth fighting," who realized too late that "because of his desire to look good coming home from a war, he might never come home at all." A highly decorated Vietnam veteran himself, Marlantes brings the horrors and heroism of war to life with the finesse of a seasoned writer, exposing not just the things they carry, but the fears they bury, the friends they lose, and the men they follow. Matterhorn is as much about the development of Mellas from boy to man, from the kind of man you fight beside to the man you fight for, as it is about the war itself. Through his untrained eyes, readers gain a new perspective on the ravages of war, the politics and bureaucracy of the military, and the peculiar beauty of brotherhood
Matterhorn - A Novel of the Vietnam War
Karl Marlantes
Atlantic Monthly Press
2010
592 páginas
19h 44m
ISBN-10: 080211928X
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Karl Marlantes
The son of a World War II veteran, Karl Marlantes grew up in a small logging town in Oregon. In 1964, at age 19, he completed a Marine training program and was subsequently placed in the Marine Corps Reserve. He attended Yale, was awarded a Rhodes Scholarship in his senior year of college, and went to Oxford University to continue his studies. After a semester there, however, Marlantes chose to leave school to join many of his peers who were fighting in Vietnam. He landed in Vietnam in October 1968, was placed in charge of a platoon in the 4th Marine Regiment. Marlantes served for a year, and was awarded the Navy Cross, two Navy Commendation Medals for Valor, two Purple Hearts, and ten air medals. After leaving Vietnam, Marlantes returned to Oxford where he continued his graduate education, earning an MA in philosophy, politics and education. He spent the next 30 years raising a family and working as a business consultant for various international energy companies, while grappling with his memories of the war. In the late 1990s, Marlantes asked the Veterans Administration for help with symptoms caused by post-traumatic stress disorder. He entered counseling, and a decade later finished Matterhorn, the novel he’d been working on since returning from Vietnam. The book draws from his own war experiences, and he credits the process of writing it with helping him come to terms with what he saw. Marlantes’ most recent book is the non-fiction What It Is Like to Go to War, which weaves his personal recollections of Vietnam with analysis of the effects of war on those who fight, and how we can better prepare soldiers for the experience of war.
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