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Girl By The Road At Night (2010)

by David Rabe(Favorite Author)

2.81 of 5 Votes: 5

ISBN

1439163332 (ISBN13: 9781439163337)

languge

English

genre

Historical Fiction

publisher

Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group

review 1: Interesting but predictable. I wanted to like the story more than I did (loved Matterhorn). I couldn't quite get attached to the two main characters, Whitaker and Lan. Nice descriptions of the environment and settings, but the foreshadowing of the uncle wanting a photo of Lan was too obvious. Also, despite my close association with the military during the Vietnam era, I never clearly understood the difference between 'numba ten' and 'numba one', as Lan uses these terms, is ten bad and one good? I'm glad Whitaker understood her, maybe I'm just dense. Billed as a romance, but it barely meets this description in my opinion.
review 2: I'm torn about David Rabe's "Girl by the Road at Night: A Novel of Vietnam." The author takes a chance by telling the story in the p... moreresent tense and succeeds, although I will admit that the choice in tense and the "Consider this..." style made me want to put down the book a few pages into it. But, as compelling as the narrative style is, it cannot make up for the fact that the characters aren't very likeable nor do they really change for the better, or even for the worse, as the book progressed. It seemed like the characters were doomed to stay their unlikeable selves because the author just couldn't cut anyone a break. I kind of feel as though the author was in the middle of a tough spot in his life and took it out on Whitaker and Lan. less

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