Description: Seventeen-year-old Richie Perry, just out of his Harlem high school, enlists in the Army in the summer of 1967 and spends a devastating year on active duty in Vietnam.
Synopsis Seventeen-year-old Richie Perry, just out of his Harlem high school, enlists in the Army in the summer of 1967 and spends a devastating year on active duty in Vietnam.
Details
Publication Date:
1991-09-01
Edition Description:
Reprint
Size
Height:
6.5 in
Width:
4.3 in
Thickness:
0.8 in
Weight:
5.6 oz
Publisher's Note The critically acclaimed story of one young man's tour of duty in Vietnam and a testament to the thousands of young people who lived and died during the war. This generation's most powerful Vietnam story. 1989 Coretta Scott King Author Award Book; ALA Notable Children's Trade Book in the Field of Social Studies.
Industry Reviews "Powerful...articulate, dispassionate...readers will be haunted by this tribute to a ravaged generation." Dunn