River of Time (Paperback)
| Author: Jon Swain |
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Format: Paperback
Publisher: Penguin Group USA
ISBN-10: 0425168050
ISBN-13: 9780425168059
Sku: 213580076
Publish Date: 12/14/2009
Dimensions:
(in Inches) 8.25H x 5.25L x 0.75T
Pages:
304
Age Range:
NA
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| A splendid memoir...a tale, at once tragic and beautiful, of love and loss, of coming of age and of witnessing the end of Indochina as the West had known it for more than a century. -- Los Angleles Times Book Review. From the writer immortalized in the Academy Award-winning film The Killing Fields. *Author: Swain, Jon/ Swain, John *Binding Type: Paperback *Number of Pages: 304 *Publication Date: 1999/10/01 *Language: English *Dimensions: 8.03 x 5.03 x 0.74 inches |
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A memoir of one journalist's troubled involvement with the Vietnam War. Captured by Communist cadres of the Khmer Rouge in 1975, he was nearly executed and had to flee for his life. "River of Time" is Swain's attempt to make peace with a tumultuous past, and to say adieu to the Indochina he loved and the way of life that has gone forever.
A memoir of one journalist's troubled involvement with the Vietnam War. Captured by Communist cadres of the Khmer Rouge in 1975, he was nearly executed and had to flee for his life. "River of Time" is Swain's attempt to make peace with a tumultuous past, and to say adieu to the Indochina he loved and the way of life that has gone forever.
Praise
Observer (London)
"An absolutely riveting book." Bloomsbury Review
"[A] poignant coming-of-age portrait...[I]t is [Swain's] relentless search for the beauty of Indochina and its cultures that hovers on every page." - Jeff Biggers March/April 2000
"An absolutely riveting book." Bloomsbury Review
"[A] poignant coming-of-age portrait...[I]t is [Swain's] relentless search for the beauty of Indochina and its cultures that hovers on every page." - Jeff Biggers March/April 2000
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