Steel's book is not the first time Viet Nam has appeared in the Romance genre, however Anthony Grey's Saigon (Dell, 1982) and Christie Dickason's Indochine (Bantam, 1987) precede it.Īnd before you stop reading because you think Romance novels are below consideration, consider this: more people have read Danielle Steel's vision of the Viet Nam war than Philip Caputo's or Tim O'Brien's. With the publication of Danielle Steel's Message from Nam (Dell, 1990), it seems that the Viet Nam war has been thoroughly domesticated. and the Institute of Advanced Technology in the Humanities at the University of Virginia at Charlottesville, is dedicated to using electronic resources to provide routes of collaboration and make available primary and secondary sources for researchers, students, teachers, writers and librarians interested in the 1960s.įiction: The Romance of Viet Nam By Renny Christopher, English Department, CSU Stanislaus The Sixties Project, sponsored by Viet Nam Generation Inc. For information on a specific text, contact Kalí Tal. A few of the texts we publish are in the public domain. This notice must accompany any redistribution of the text. These texts may not be archived, printed, or redistributed in any form for a fee, without the consent of the copyright holder. These texts may be used, printed, and archived in accordance with the Fair Use provisions of U.S. Texts made available by the Sixties Project, are generally copyrighted by the Author or by Viet Nam Generation, Inc., all rights reserved. Viet Nam Generation Journal & Newsletter V3, N3 (November 1991) But for her and the men who fought in Viet Nam, life would never be the same again.Romance in Viet Nam Literature, Renny Christopher

For seven years Paxton Andrews would write an acclaimed newspaper column from the front before finally returning to the States and then attending the Paris peace talks. Sergeant Tony Campobello had come to Vietnam from the streets of New York to vent a rage that had followed him all the way to Saigon. Bill Quinn, captain of the Cu Chi tunnel rats, was on his fourth tour of duty and it seemed nothing could touch him. Ralph Johnson, a seasoned AP correspondent, had been in Saigon since the beginning. Peter Wilson, fresh from law school, was a new recruit who would confont his fate in Da Nang. For the men in her life, Viet Nam would change their lives in ways hey could not escape or deny.

For the soldiers she knew and met there, Viet Nam would change their lives in ways they could never have imagined. We follow her from high school in Savannah to college in Berkeley and then to work in Saigon.

As a journalist, Paxton Andrews would experience Vietnam firsthand.

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