Books

Enduring Love falls as flat as the hot-air balloon that kills the heroic family doctor John Logan in a freak accident. Logan’s death triggers a maddeningly artificial construct that masquerades as a plausible story. But because the story is told within the highbrow medium of “Literary Fiction,” anything is possible. 

Sergeant Dickinson brings home the horror of the Viet Nam War wrapped in a tidy, decorative package that reeks of napalm. Sergeant Dickinson, called Dixie, is a flawed hero so damaged by the carnage of battle that he has lost his capacity to be human. He is not a beast, an asshole, or a cowboy, as any one of these singular descriptions would suggest. He’s all three descriptors rolled into one shell of a former human being.