The Life of Kim and the Behavior of Men: Human Bondage in the After-market of War - Couverture souple

Davis, Rod

 
9781956440799: The Life of Kim and the Behavior of Men: Human Bondage in the After-market of War
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1956440798 ISBN 13 : 9781956440799
Editeur : Madville Publishing LLC, 2024

Synopsis

Winner of FIVE AWARDS in 2024

1 Silver Award, Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY), 2025, Military/Wartime Fiction

2 Honorable Mention, Forward Indies 2024, War and Military Fiction

3 Finalist, American Fiction Awards, American Book Fest, 2024, Military Fiction

4 Finalist, Author of the Year 2025, International Impact Book Awards

5 Winner, International Impact Awards, June 2024, Contemporary Fiction

In 1970, Second Lieutenant Thomas Jefferson Hobbes, fresh out of college and ROTC, finds himself sent to South Korea instead of the expected Vietnam. His arrival at Kimpo Air Base turns his destiny from a war zone to another face of warfare, the destructive interactions between soldiers and camp followers, aka men and women, that are a part of conquest and occupation throughout history and around the world. Utterly unprepared, he follows trails and carves his own, his soul and sense of humanity falling to levels of hell that even Dante would find daunting.

A beautiful young Korean working girl, known only as Miss Kim, becomes Hobbes's partner and his guide into deception and danger. Pushing through his 13-month tour, he becomes a part of the thoughtless, predatory subculture that binds him to the love of his life, but at an impossible price.

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À propos de l?auteur

Award-winning writer Rod Davis is the author of East of Texas, West of Hell, the sequel to South, America, described as "a triumph of Southern noir." He is also the author of Corina's Way, winner of the fiction prize in the inaugural PEN Southwest Book Awards for 2000-2005, and of American Voudou: Journey into a Hidden World, selected as one of the "Exceptional Books of 1998" by Bookman Book Review Syndicate. A long-time journalist and magazine editor, he is a member of PEN America, the Texas Institute of Letters, and was formerly on the board of directors of the National Book Critics Circle. He served as an Army first lieutenant in South Korea in the Vietnam Era.

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Éditeur
Madville Publishing LLC
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1956440798
ISBN 13 
9781956440799
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
302
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Personne responsable
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