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Bombingham

"When Walter Burke's buddy dies in a blood-soaked Vietnamese jungle, Walter finds himself writing a letter to the young man's parents. But as he struggles to put words on paper, all the trauma of his years growing up middle class and black in Birmingham, Alabama floods back into his mind. While enemies and the threat of death surround him in Vietnam, Walter relives the racial upheaval of the civil rights movement - and the subsequent disintegration of his family - even while he tries to make sense of his current place in a tragic war."

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  • ""When Walter Burke's buddy dies in a blood-soaked Vietnamese jungle, Walter finds himself writing a letter to the young man's parents. But as he struggles to put words on paper, all the trauma of his years growing up middle class and black in Birmingham, Alabama floods back into his mind. While enemies and the threat of death surround him in Vietnam, Walter relives the racial upheaval of the civil rights movement - and the subsequent disintegration of his family - even while he tries to make sense of his current place in a tragic war.""
  • ""When Walter Burke's buddy dies in a blood-soaked Vietnamese jungle, Walter finds himself writing a letter to the young man's parents. But as he struggles to put words on paper, all the trauma of his years growing up middle class and black in Birmingham, Alabama floods back into his mind. While enemies and the threat of death surround him in Vietnam, Walter relives the racial upheaval of the civil rights movement - and the subsequent disintegration of his family - even while he tries to make sense of his current place in a tragic war.""@en
  • "When Walter Burke's army buddy dies in a blood-soaked Vietnamese jungle, Walter finds himself writing a letter to the young man's parents. But as he struggles to put words on paper, all the trauma of his years growing up middle class and black in Birmingham, Alabama floods back into his mind."@en
  • ""When Walter Burke's buddy dies in a blood-soaked Vietnamese jungle, Walter finds himself writing a letter to the young man's parents. But as he struggles to put words on paper, all the trauma of his years growing up middle class and black in Birmingham, Alabama floods back into his mind. While enemies and the threat of death surround him in Vietnam, Walter relives the racial upheaval of the civil rights movement - and the subsequent disintegration of his family - even while he tries to make sense of his current place in a tragic war."--Container."@en
  • ""When Walter Burke's buddy dies in a blood-soaked Vietnamese jungle, Walter finds himself writing a letter to the young man's parents. But as he struggles to put words on paper, all the trauma of his years growing up middle class and black in Birmingham, Alabama floods back into his mind. While enemies and the threat of death surround him in Vietnam, Walter relives the racial upheaval of the civil rights movement - and the subsequent disintegration of his family - even while he tries to make sense of his current place in a tragic war."--Container."
  • "Fictional recollection of Walter Burke's experience growing up in black middle class Birmingham, Alabama, during the civil rights movement and his later service in the Vietnam War."@en
  • "[A] novel about the destruction of hope. Narrator Walter recalls being swept up with his sister in the Civil Rights marches in Birmingham at a time when their mother lay dying of cancer and their father drifted into alcoholism. As Walter awakened to the hopes and dreams of freedom through the teachings of the Civil Rights leaders, his own ability to dream and hope withered with the physical death of his mother and the spiritual death of his father. Walter looks back on this period of his life from the midst of the carnage of the Vietnam War, in which he is both victim and perpetrator. Although apparently callous to the deaths surrounding him, he is troubled by his lack of emotions. Retracing his past offers no answers and no healing. Grooms provides a vivid picture of the heady and confusing days of the fight for civil rights in Birmingham, the historical conditions of racism accompanied by arbitrary death and violence, and a young boy spiritually wounded by social injustice, violence, and the disintegration of his family. -Library Journal."

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  • "Fiction"
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  • "Audiobooks"@en
  • "Bildungsromans"
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  • "Downloadable audio books"
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  • "War stories"
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  • "Bombingham a novel"
  • "Bombingham"
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