A Dangerous Friend

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Publication Year:
1999

ISBN-13: 9780547561424

<DIV><B>Well-meaning American civilians make an attempt at nation-building during the Vietnam War, in this &ldquo;powerful&rdquo; novel by a National Book Award finalist (<I>Newsweek</I>).</B><BR /><BR /> Named one of the Best Books of the Year by<I> Time</I> and the<I> Los Angeles Times</I><BR /> &#160;<BR /> In this &ldquo;extraordinary,&rdquo; beautifully constructed large-canvas novel of Saigon in 1965, Ward Just takes a penetrating look into America&rsquo;s role in the world (<I>The New York Times</I>).<BR /> &#160;<BR /> Sydney Parade, a political scientist, has left his home and family in an effort to become part of something larger than himself, a foreign aid operation in the South Vietnamese capital. Even before he arrives, he encounters French and Americans who reveal to him the unsettling depths of a conflict he thought he understood&mdash;and in Saigon, the Vietnamese add yet another dimension. Before long, the rampant missteps and misplaced ideals trap Parade and others in a moral crossfire.<BR /> &#160;<BR /> &ldquo;Emotionally wrenching and always beautifully observant,&rdquo; this is a story of conscience and its consequences among those for whom Vietnam was neither the right fight nor the wrong fight but the only fight (<I>Entertainment Weekly</I>). The exotic tropical surroundings, coarsening and corrupting effects of a colonial regime, and visionary delusions of the American democratizers all play their part. &ldquo;A literary triumph that transcends its war story&rdquo; and a New York Times Notable Book, <I>A Dangerous Friend</I> can be justly compared to Joseph Conrad&rsquo;s <I>Nostromo</I> or Graham Greene&rsquo;s <I>The Quiet American</I>&mdash;a thrilling narrative roiling with intrigue, mayhem, and betrayal (<I>San Francisco Chronicle</I>).<BR /> &#160;<BR /> &ldquo;Makes you want to run screaming into the street to protest retrospectively the war he has so movingly recreated.&rdquo; &mdash;<I>The New York Times</I></DIV>