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Cullin is an unusually sophisticated theorist of human nature. -The New York Times Book Review Hollis and Debra have settled into their golden years in a gated community outside of Tucson. Although they are devoted to each other, events that took place decades earlier have left Hollis with a deep-seated trauma-and with a secret he has never been able to share with his wife. When Debra is diagnosed with cancer, she makes her husband a simple request-Tell me about us-which forces Hollis to revisit his past. In 1950, Hollis fought in the Korean War alongside the bigoted but charismatic Bill McCreedy. McCreedy seems to have it all, although he is a mercurial soldier whose ungovernable behavior is often at odds with what Hollis believes to be right. Now, years later, Hollis is haunted by memories of McCreedy and his own wartime actions that he had tried to suppress. These recollections eventually lead him from the body-strewn battlefields of Korea to the remote farmhouse in Texas where McCreedy had grown up-and for the first time he finds himself examining his and Debra's life to understand how chance had played a hand in bringing them together. Mitch Cullin, one of today's most celebrated young novelists, captures some of the most difficult themes in literature: fate, love, and death. The Post-War Dream is literary fiction of the highest order.… (más)
Meticulous writing, overreaching at times, settling in to a lulling flow through both horror and ennui, constructing an artful, tightly engineered balance between killing and cancer, between Arizona suburb, Korean War landscapes, and Texas dead farm scrubland, between withdrawn Minnesotan, boisterous Texan, and a cynical golf partner, between husband with big cactus garden with tiki hut and wife with a house.
Details on lookout posts during war, suburban street layouts, snipers, chemotherapy, and mixing Glenfiddich, Seconal, Nembutal, green tea, and Dramamine. ( )
Hollis and Debra married not long after Hollis returned from the Korean War. Now they’re living out their retirement years in Arizona where it has unexpectedly snowed. That’s when another unexpected thing happens: a regular doctor’s checkup reveals that Debra has cancer. Hollis always thought he’d go first since his mother is a widow twice-over, but now he must face losing his life’s love. As the two struggle through Debra’s treatment, Debra encourages Hollis to reflect on his life both through writing his autobiography and asking to again be told the story of how they met.
The Post-War Dream goes back and forth between present-day and the past as Hollis remembers his time in Korea. The flashbacks are seamlessly woven into the present-day happenings which makes the transition for the reader very smooth. Cullin does an excellent job telling this heart-breaking story. The characters are very real and the settings are beautifully described. ( )
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As when a man dreams, he reflects not that his body sleeps, Else he would wake; so seem'd he entering his shadow. --William Blake, Milton
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For my sister Charise Christian, who taught me how to write my name and kept me reading
and for Howe Gelb, surrogate big brother and my troubadour of choice
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Throughout the years Hollis has observed them among his dreams, watching from a distance as they foraged under a blackened sky.
Citas
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"It's okay," he assures himself, finding his balance, returning to the pathway - squinting now against the sun and reaching his hands outward to grasp at air, weaving blindly ahead for no other reason than he must, pacified by the sudden understanding that all things born are fated to move toward their end.
Cullin is an unusually sophisticated theorist of human nature. -The New York Times Book Review Hollis and Debra have settled into their golden years in a gated community outside of Tucson. Although they are devoted to each other, events that took place decades earlier have left Hollis with a deep-seated trauma-and with a secret he has never been able to share with his wife. When Debra is diagnosed with cancer, she makes her husband a simple request-Tell me about us-which forces Hollis to revisit his past. In 1950, Hollis fought in the Korean War alongside the bigoted but charismatic Bill McCreedy. McCreedy seems to have it all, although he is a mercurial soldier whose ungovernable behavior is often at odds with what Hollis believes to be right. Now, years later, Hollis is haunted by memories of McCreedy and his own wartime actions that he had tried to suppress. These recollections eventually lead him from the body-strewn battlefields of Korea to the remote farmhouse in Texas where McCreedy had grown up-and for the first time he finds himself examining his and Debra's life to understand how chance had played a hand in bringing them together. Mitch Cullin, one of today's most celebrated young novelists, captures some of the most difficult themes in literature: fate, love, and death. The Post-War Dream is literary fiction of the highest order.
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Details on lookout posts during war, suburban street layouts, snipers, chemotherapy, and mixing Glenfiddich, Seconal, Nembutal, green tea, and Dramamine. (