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About Sympathy For The Devil
Product Description Censured by some critics for its brutality but heralded by others as a modern-day classic, Sympathy for the Devil is a terrifying, intoxicating journey through the violence, madness, and insane beauty of battle. It traces the story of a hardened Green Beret named Hanson, a college student who goes to war with a book of Yeats's poetry in his pocket and discovers the savagery within himself. In this extraordinary novel, we follow Hanson through two tours of duty and a bitter attempt to live as a civilian in between. At one with the lush and dangerous world around him in Vietnam, Hanson is doomed to survive the landscape of devastation he encounters. Sympathy for the Devil contains some of the most vivid, finely etched prose ever written about the actual process of war--from firing a weapon for the first time in battle to the moment a young man knows that he has entered a living hell and found a home.... Review "Anderson has a profundity found with novelists of the human experience who have observed, can interpret and then carry us back to smell, hear and bleed." -- Los Angeles Times "Tear[s] like a burst of tracers through the field of Vietnam War literature...riveting." -- Dale A. Dye, Captain, U.S.M.C. (Ret.), author of the novel Platoon "ANDERSON'S WORK IS CHILLING AND AUTHENTIC." -- Oliver Stone Novels by Kent Anderson Night Dogs Sympathy for the Devil Available from Bantam Dell Books From the Inside Flap some critics for its brutality but heralded by others as a modern-day classic, Sympathy for the Devil is a terrifying, intoxicating journey through the violence, madness, and insane beauty of battle. It traces the story of a hardened Green Beret named Hanson, a college student who goes to war with a book of Yeats's poetry in his pocket and discovers the savagery within himself. In this extraordinary novel, we follow Hanson through two tours of duty and a bitter attempt to live as a civilian in between. At one with the lush and dangerous world around him in Vietnam, Hanson is doomed to survive the landscape of devastation he encounters. Sympathy for the Devil contains some of the most vivid, finely etched prose ever written about the actual process of war--from firing a weapon for the first time in battle to the moment a young man knows that he has entered a living hell and found a home.... From the Back Cover "Anderson has a profundity found with novelists of the human experience who have observed, can interpret and then carry us back to smell, hear and bleed." -- Los Angeles Times "Tear[s] like a burst of tracers through the field of Vietnam War literature...riveting." -- Dale A. Dye, Captain, U.S.M.C. (Ret.), author of the novel Platoon "ANDERSON'S WORK IS CHILLING AND AUTHENTIC." -- Oliver Stone Novels by Kent Anderson Night Dogs Sympathy for the Devil Available from Bantam Dell Books About the Author Kent Anderson is a former police officer, a former Special Forces sergeant in Vietnam, and the author of Night Dogs. He lives in Idaho. From the Trade Paperback edition. Excerpt. © Reprinted by permission. All rights reserved. THE LAUNCH SITE A sheet of paper was tacked to the wall over Hanson's bunk: Every day in the world a hundred thousand people die. A human life means nothing. General Vo Nguyen Giap, Commander-in-Chief, North Vietnamese Army "In order to despise suffering, to be always content and never astonished at anything, one must reach such a state as this"--and Ivan Dmitrich indicated the obese peasant, bloated with fat--"or else one must harden one's self through sufferings to such a degree as to lose all sensitivity to them: that is, in other words, cease to live." Anton Chekhov Hanson stood just inside the heavy-timbered door of his concrete bunker, looking out. There was no moon yet. The only sound was the steady sobbing of the big diesel generators, but Hanson heard nothing. Had the generators ever stopped he would have heard the sile
