Garden City, Doubleday, 1987. The well-received first novel by the author of the highly acclaimed Night Dogs. A powerful novel about the Special Forces in Vietnam, with whom the author served, which confronts the violence of the war head-on and explores an individual's capacity for tolerating and committing brutality that in any other context would be unthinkable and inhuman. One of the best novels of the war in its lucid portrayal of the devastating effects of the war on even so elite a group as this and, as such, a powerful antiwar statement without the usual postures and attitudes that are normally associated with an antiwar message. Signed by Anderson on the title page and additionally inscribed on the front flyleaf to Steve Krauzer: "Krauzer! -- one of the three Missoula Members of the Screen Writers Guild -- Thanks for buying Sympathy -- It's been a long time now more sane & better -- Kent." Krauzer was a novelist as well as a screenwriter, and part of the thriving literary scene in Missoula, Montana, which has been called a latter day American Bloomsbury. Fine in a fine dust jacket.   [#027848] SOLD

All books are first printings of first editions or first American editions unless otherwise noted.