Meditations in Green - by Stephen Wright (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>James Griffin finds himself profoundly affected by his experiences in Vietnam as he evolves from a clear-eyed, hard-working soldier into an unstrung, lethargic, and cynical drug addict with great difficulties in adjusting to civilian life.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>One of the greatest Vietnam War novels ever written, by an award-winning writer who experienced it firsthand.</b><br>Deployed to Vietnam with the U.S. Army's 1069 Intelligence Group, Spec. 4 James Griffin starts out clear-eyed and hardworking, believing he can glide through the war unharmed. But the kaleidoscope of horrors he experiences gets inside him relentlessly. He gradually collapses and ends up unstrung, in step with the exploding hell around him and waiting for the cataclysm that will bring him home, dead or not.<br>Griffin survives, but back in the U.S. his battles intensify. Beset by addiction, he takes up meditating on household plants and attempts to adjust to civilian life and beat back the insanity that threatens to overwhelm him. <br><i>Meditations in Green</i> is a haunting exploration of the harrowing costs of war and yet-unhealed wounds, the impact of an experience so devastating that words can hardly contain it (Walter Kendrick, the <i>New York Times Book Review</i>). Through passages gorgeous, agonizing, and surreal, Stephen Wright paints a searing portrait of a nation driven to the brink by violence and deceit.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><b>Praise for <i>Processed Cheese</i></b> <p/><i>Processed Cheese</i> does for consumerism what <i>Catch-22</i> did for war.--<i><b>Stephen King, bestselling author of IT and The Shining </b></i><br><br><b>Praise for<i> Meditations in Green</i> (1983)</b><i> <p/></i>Precisely that brutal hallucination we desperately wanted to end. --Don DeLillo <p/>The best that any fiction about this war has offered. --<i>Newsweek</i><br><br><br><b>PRAISE FOR STEPHEN WRIGHT</b> <p/><b><i>M31: A Family Romance</i> (1988)</b> <p/>Beautiful and terrifying. . . . <i>M31</i> offers a big, bold look at the American family. It takes us far away and very close to home. . . . Stephen Wright is a . . . bright star in the literary sky. --<i>San Francisco</i><i> Chronicle <p/></i><i>M31</i> is a devastatingly forceful accomplishment and reestablishes its author as a star of the first magnitude. --<i>The Washington Post Book World</i> <p/>Mr. Wright's sentences buzz like high-tension wires. I enjoyed reading every word of <i>M31, </i> literally. --Russell Banks <p/><b><i>Going Native</i> (1994)</b> <p/>An astonishing novel. --Toni Morrison <p/><b><i>The Amalgamation Polka</i> (2007)</b> <p/>An extravagantly talented novelist. . . . For Wright, America, past and present, is Wonderland, a place of marvels and horrors from which not even the fortunate escape with their heads. --Laura Miller, <i>The New York Times Book Review</i> <p/>This dark and lyrical tale of madness and prophecy speaks uncannily from within its period, in the tradition of heartbroken humor, which America's lapses of faith in its own promise have always evoked in the finest of our storytellers, among whom Stephen Wright here honorably takes his place. --Thomas Pynchon <p/>Quite simply an astonishing novel, brilliantly executed and beautifully written. Stephen Wright deserves to be famous and feted for it. <br>--<i>The Atlanta Journal-Constitution</i><br><br>In novel after unsparing novel-each one gorgeous, too, and full of awe- Stephen Wright has emerged as a kind of modern-day Socrates hectoring a complacent citizenry to have a good hard look at its collective delusions. With <i>Processed Cheese</i>, he's written a novel so outrageous and diagnostic of our current ills, it will prove much stronger than hemlock. If you hope to keep up your venality, America, your cruelties, and your death wish, better string this court jester up by his toes.--<i><b>Joshua Ferris, author of The Dinner Party</b></i><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Stephen Wright</b> is a Vietnam veteran, MFA graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and the author of four previous novels. He has received a Whiting Award in Fiction, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Lannan Literary Fellowship, and has taught writing and literature at Iowa, Princeton, Brown, and The New School. He was born in Warren, Pennsylvania, and lives in New York City.
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