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"A few days before he turns eighteen in 1968, a tragic event eliminates Noble Norfleet's family. With no close relatives to turn to, he stays with the old black woman who tended his childhood; and he throws himself recklessly into a love affair with his high-school Spanish teacher, a woman whose husband is away in Vietnam. Stunned and baffled by the onset of visions, he seeks guidance from his mother's Christian minister, only to find himself tangled in a thicket of another sort.".
"When Noble graduates in the turbulent spring of the murders of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy, he enlists in the army and serves in Vietnam as a combat medic. While there, he undergoes an inexplicable - perhaps visionary - experience that seems profoundly related to his recent past and his future. While he never fully comprehends what has occurred he returns home compelled to continue his service, ultimately as a civilian nurse.".
"For the next thirty years, his life is externally calm yet perpetually troubled by a compulsion to worship women - above all, their bodies. Absorbed in a succession of relations, he acquires few friends or external trappings, though he always remains a dutiful nurse; and he nears middle age in a loneliness he fears. Then an unexpected event forces him to rethink the mystery that claimed his family.
Faced with an ominous choice, he finally begins to accept the large duty he has tried to ignore through his whole adult life."--BOOK JACKET.
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Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975, Mothers and sons, Death, Vietnam War, 1961-1975, Brothers and sisters, Children of prisoners, Parent and adult child, Fiction, Medical care, Murder victims' families, Vietnam war, 1961-1975, fiction, Fiction, psychological, Mothers and sons, fiction, SiblingsShowing 2 featured editions. View all 2 editions?
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