Sergeant
Dickinson
"Gold, who served in
Vietnam as a Special Forces sergeant, writes spare and elegant prose
that belies the brutality and the claustrophobia he evokes here. His
slim novel is a carefully chosen assortment of details and
impressions; he expertly dismantles the myth – dear to civilians as
well as soldiers – 'that if you do everything right no harm will come
to you.'"
Dwight Garner
New York Times
"Jerome Gold’s Sergeant
Dickinson goes beyond A Farewell to Arms. It’s proof that the madness
of war cannot be understated without blooming even more horribly in
the reader’s mind."
Stewart O'Nan
A Prayer for The Dying
and The Vietnam Reader (Ed.)
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