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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Henry Holt & Co
Publication date May 1, 1988
Binding Hardcover
Book category Adult Fiction
ISBN-13 9780805007152
ISBN-10 0805007156
Availability§ Out of Print
Original list price $15.95
§As reported by publisher
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Summary
Emmett Wheeler, a Vietnam veteran teaching English to Vietnamese refugees in Maryland, searches for his boyhood friend Dennis Slagel and ends up falling in love with Xuan, Dennis's Vietnamese lover
Amazon.com description: Product Description: This short, disturbing, and unconventional novel is set in the eerie marshland of southern Maryland - fifty miles and a world away from Washington, D.C. Emmett Wheeler, a Vietnam vet and failed journalist, has return to the place where he grew up and now teaches English to Vietnamese refugees - people as haunted by the war, and as uprooted, as he is. At the edge o the marshes is a trailer park were many of these Vietnamese live. One mutilated deer after another turns up around the part, terrifying the refugees, who see the mutilations as a sinister sign. Wheeler recognizes the pattern of mutilation as the same that his boyhood friend Dennis once performed, horribly, on Vietnamese villagers who betrayed him. Convinced that the mutilations are a bizarre call for help, Wheeler starts to search for Dennis. That search takes him to people once involved with Dennis, to the marshes where he suspects Dennis may be hiding, and the Xuan, Dennis's onetime lover. Xuan is the key, but there is a complication - Wheeler is falling love with her. "Lost Armies" is a Vietnam novel that takes place in America; a murder mystery in which most of the victims are nonhuman; a ghost story in which the ghosts may or may not be real. And its conclusion is as unsuspected as it is shattering.

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About: Emmett Wheeler, a Vietnam veteran teaching English to Vietnamese refugees in Maryland, searches for his boyhood friend Dennis Slagel and ends up falling in love with Xuan, Dennis's Vietnamese lover

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