"Set in 1921, [this novel follows] Harrell Hickman and Willem Redd, [who] have returned home from no man's land and the brutality of war in the trenches in France. Neither has been able to resume what they were or might have been after living through the senselessness of bodies blown up and the crushing deaths from machine gun fire, poisonous gas, and mortars day after day after day. Back in the U.S., Hickman walks away from an overcrowded veteran's hospital where he is being treated for 'shell shock, ' a devastating mental disease that today is benignly called PTSD. Redd, who barely survived…mehr
"Set in 1921, [this novel follows] Harrell Hickman and Willem Redd, [who] have returned home from no man's land and the brutality of war in the trenches in France. Neither has been able to resume what they were or might have been after living through the senselessness of bodies blown up and the crushing deaths from machine gun fire, poisonous gas, and mortars day after day after day. Back in the U.S., Hickman walks away from an overcrowded veteran's hospital where he is being treated for 'shell shock, ' a devastating mental disease that today is benignly called PTSD. Redd, who barely survived shattering wounds, is hospitalized at Walter Reed; on release, he returns to his family and home in Wisdom, Nebraska. Both Hickman and Redd happen to meet in Wisdom, where Hickman ends up after hopping freight trains west. The chance encounter of these damaged young men leads to a number of dramatic clashes that in their unfolding bear the semblance of foreordained Greek tragedy"--Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Jim Beane is a fiction writer. His stories revolve around working class people in working class settings to illuminate their American dream and the costs all people pay to live that dream. Jim lives west of Baltimore, Maryland with his wife and family. His short stories have appeared in more than 25 literary publications, including The MacGuffin, El Portal, The Baltimore Review, The Potomac Review, The Evening Street Review and the anthologies DC Noir and Workers Write: tales from the construction site. By the Sea, his award-winning short story collection, is available on Amazon, Kindle and Smashwords. He worked his days in the construction industry as a painter, electrician, laborer, and master carpenter. Currently, he is an instructor at the Writers Center in Bethesda, Maryland, and a mentor for the Veterans Writing Project. Pre-covid, he created and taught a creative writing class for the Armed Services Arts Partnership. Find out more at http://www.jimbeane.com.
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