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A Dangerous Friend Paperback - 2000
by Ward Just
A major novel by the author of "Echo House", set in Indochina in 1965. Sydney Parade, a trained political scientist, runs away to Saigon in an effort to become something larger than himself--and begins--but only begins--to understand something of the complexities of Western survival in the Third World.
Summary
Ward Just's twelfth novel penetrates deeply into America's role in the world. Set in Indochina in 1965, A DANGEROUS FRIEND tells a story of "the devolution of an innocent American crusading for democracy" (VANITY FAIR), a man living the conflict of so many Americans caught in a political and spiritual crossfire. Sydney Parade, a political scientist, has left home and family in an effort to become part of something larger than himself, a foreign-aid operation in Saigon. Even before he arrives, he encounters people who reveal to him the unsettling depths of a conflict he thought he understood, and in Saigon the Vietnamese add yet another dimension. This "fabulous, tense and dramatic" (LOS ANGELES TIMES) narrative needs neither combat nor bloodshed to tell its tale. A DANGEROUS FRIEND is the beautifully constructed story of civilians who want to reform Vietnam -- but the Vietnam they see isn't the Vietnam that is.
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- Title A Dangerous Friend
- Author Ward Just
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 272
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Mariner Books, Boston
- Date 2000-04-19
- Features Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780618056705 / 061805670X
- Weight 0.74 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 8.73 x 5.62 x 0.72 in (22.17 x 14.27 x 1.83 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1940's
- Chronological Period: 1960's
- Chronological Period: 1950-1999
- Cultural Region: Asian - General
- Cultural Region: East Asian
- Cultural Region: Southeast Asian
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98050728
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Media reviews
"Spectacular . . . Truly visionary." Boston Globe
"Extraordinary...Mr. Just's novel makes you want to run screaming into the street to protest retrospectively the war he has so movingly recreated." The New York Times
"A powerful story beautifully told." Newsweek
"Its greatness will stand the test of time . . . One hundred years hence, A DANGEROUS FRIEND will remain a beautiful, beautiful book." The San Francisco Chronicle
"Emotionally wrenching and always beautifully observant, this is a work in the Graham Greene tradition." Entertainment Weekly
"Extraordinary...Mr. Just's novel makes you want to run screaming into the street to protest retrospectively the war he has so movingly recreated." The New York Times
"A powerful story beautifully told." Newsweek
"Its greatness will stand the test of time . . . One hundred years hence, A DANGEROUS FRIEND will remain a beautiful, beautiful book." The San Francisco Chronicle
"Emotionally wrenching and always beautifully observant, this is a work in the Graham Greene tradition." Entertainment Weekly
Citations
- Entertainment Weekly, 05/26/2000, Page 65
- New York Times, 05/28/2000, Page 24
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