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Saigon, Illinois by Paul Hoover [FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING] 1988 • Vintage Contemporaries

Saigon, Illinois by Paul Hoover [FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING] 1988 • Vintage Contemporaries

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Saigon, Illinois by Paul Hoover

FIRST EDITION • FIRST PRINTING [1988] VINTAGE CONTEMPORARIES

A Vintage Contemporaries trade paperback original. 

Book is in excellent condition.  Light shelf wear to cover and some inevitable tanning to pages.   Reads flawlessly. 

Classified as a conscientious objector by his draft board in Indiana, Jim Holder sets out for Chicago to perform alternative service to his country at a large municipal hospital.

The time: 1969. The backdrop: a city where daily life swerves wildly back and forth between lazy days and baseball games to violent demonstrations in the streets.

The cast of characters: Holder's roommates, and their pals (poets manqué, revolutionary hustlers, rich boys turned Trotskyite), and his motley crew of co-workers at the hospital.

How many lives can Holder touch and still keep his pacifist center in its place? How many bodies can he count-on TV, in the morgue, in the cemeteries of the small towns that surround his - and still stay clean?

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