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Title: In Country RI by Bobbie Ann Mason ISBN: 0-06-091350-9 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 22 October, 1986 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.56 (39 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: In Country
Comment: Samantha Hughes was the daughter of a Vietnam veteran. She never knew her father, since he died before her birth. She struggles in life to find out about her father, and the history of the Vietnam War. Samantha lives with her uncle Emmett, who also served in Vietnam. Emmett is friends with Tom, Earl and Pete, three other Vietnam vets who, like Emmett, all have problems of one kind or another that relate to their war experiences. Through the book, the reader finds out that Sam is not an ordinary teen. She has to take care of Emmett because he suffers from Flashbacks, and deals with a boyfriend she does not really care for anymore. She is also faced with the everyday choices that a teen has to make, such as what to do with her life.
Samantha becomes obsessed with finding out about her father and his experiences. But, Emmett and the other veterans do not want to talk about the war. Sam pushes everyone to attend a dance honoring the town's veterans, but Pete and Earl get into a fight, Emmett disappears, and Tom takes Sam home for an unsuccessful engagement. When Sam reads her father's diary, she begins to understand what his life and death meant. Sam and Emmett come at least temporarily to terms with the war in their lives after their trip to the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial.
I really enjoyed this book because I was able to relate to Sam as a teenager and the problems that come along with those years. Also, Mason was very descriptive throughout the entire book, which helped me create a movie in my mind while reading. The character of Samantha was well thought out because of the fact that I know if I had lost my father as she did, I Furthermore, from what I know about the Vietnam War from U.S. History, Mason hit the bulls eye with her information. It was a great book and I reccommend it to anyone who enjoys sitting down in a quiet spot to read an enjoyable book.
Rating: 4
Summary: Interesting
Comment: Bobbie Ann Mason's IN COUNTRY is an excellent novel. Mason's well thought plot allows the novel to remain realistic while letting the reader see the main character learn her family's past, and look to the future while trying to find herself in the present. Mason puts a twist on the typical coming of age storyline by adding an unusual inner conflict. Sam Hughes, the main character who is a highschool student, deals with deep feelings for a sexually incapable thiry-something war vet, breaks up with her basketball superstar boyfriend and supports her pregnant bestfriend all at once. Sam spends most of her time trying to understand what really went on in the vietnam war because her uncle and father both served, only, her father never came back. Some parts of the story are repetative but they show her eagerness to know what the vets went through. This book has humor, sadness and can be very intriguing. I would recommend this book to anyone looking for some easy to read material or for a book to laugh at. In Country does just that.
Rating: 5
Summary: a book i keep coming back to
Comment: somehow, "in country" (i have no idea why this lists it as "in country ri" - what the eff is "ri"? it's certainly not on my book cover, nor have i ever seen it listed as that...) anyway, "in country" is a book i constantly find myself thinking of and coming back to. as a girl who first read this book when she was a year younger than the main character sam and last read it when she was a few years older than sam, i can't help but indentify... i think the historical questions, the 80's pop culture, and explicit descriptions of the actuality of every day life are truly amazing... i cry every time i read the book. there's something so desperate and yet so fresh and hopeful about sam hughes. i would recommend this book to anyone, but especially any girl in her late teens, or like me, early twenties.
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Title: The Things They Carried by TIM O'BRIEN ISBN: 0767902890 Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 29 December, 1998 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Clear Springs : A Family Story by Bobbie Ann Mason, Random House Inc. ISBN: 0060956291 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 25 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Shiloh and Other Stories by BOBBIE ANN MASON ISBN: 0375758437 Publisher: Modern Library Pub. Date: 07 August, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Going After Cacciato by Tim O'Brien ISBN: 0767904427 Publisher: Broadway Pub. Date: 01 September, 1999 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Regeneration by Pat Barker ISBN: 0452270073 Publisher: Plume Pub. Date: July, 1993 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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