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Dangerous Friend by Ward S. Just (1999, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherHoughton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
ISBN-100395856981
ISBN-139780395856987
eBay Product ID (ePID)470546
Product Key Features
Book TitleDangerous Friend
Number of Pages272 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicWar & Military, Historical
Publication Year1999
GenreFiction
TypeTextbook
AuthorWard S. Just
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight18.3 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN98-050728
Dewey Edition21
TitleLeadingA
ReviewsEmotionally wrenching and always beautifully observant, this is a work in the Graham Greene tradition., "Novelist Ward Just is adept at getting under the skin of recent history and under the protectively colored language of national dogma." Boston Globe "Extraordinary...Mr. Just's novel makes you want to run screaming into the street to protest retrospectively the war he has so movingly recreated." The New York Times "A powerful story beautifully told." Newsweek "Perhaps this book will garner Just the popularity he deserves. Its greatness will stand the test of time. Conrad and Melville remain contemporary writers a century after their books were published. One hundred years hence, A Dangerous Friend will remain a beautiful, beautiful book." The San Francisco Chronicle "Emotionally wrenching and always beautifully observant, this is a work in the Graham Greene tradition." Entertainment Weekly, Perhaps this book will garner Just the popularity he deserves. Its greatness will stand the test of time. Conrad and Melville remain contemporary writers a century after their books were published. One hundred years hence, A Dangerous Friend will remain a beautiful, beautiful book., Extraordinary...Mr. Just's novel makes you want to run screaming into the street to protest retrospectively the war he has so movingly recreated., Novelist Ward Just is adept at getting under the skin of recent history and under the protectively colored language of national dogma.
Dewey Decimal813/.54
Edition DescriptionTeacher's edition
SynopsisFeaturing in-depth case presentations from master clinicians, this volume highlights the remarkable capacity of traumatized children to guide their own healing process. The book describes what posttraumatic play looks like and how it can foster resilience and coping. Demonstrated are applications of play, art, and other expressive therapies with children who have faced such overwhelming experiences as sexual abuse or chronic neglect. The contributors discuss ways to facilitate forms of expression that promote mastery and growth, as well as how to intervene when play becomes stuck in destructive patterns. They share effective strategies for engaging hard-to-reach children and building trusting therapeutic relationships., In this, his twelfth novel, Ward Just penetrates more deeply into America's role in the world than he has ever done before. This beautifully constructed large-canvas novel of Saigon in 1965 can be justly compared to Joseph Conrad's NOSTROMO or Graham Greene's THE QUIET AMERICAN. A DANGEROUS FRIEND is a thrilling narrative roiling with intrigue, mayhem, and betrayal. Here is the story of conscience and its consequences among those for whom Vietnam was neither the right fight nor the wrong fight but the only fight. The exotic tropical surroundings, the coarsening and corrupting effects of a colonial regime, the visionary delusions of the American democratizers, all play their part. In A DANGEROUS FRIEND, a few civilians with bright minds and sunny intentions want to reform Vietnam -- but the Vietnam they see isn't the Vietnam that is. Sydney Parade, a political scientist, has left home and family in an effort to become part of something larger than himself, a foreign-aid operation in Saigon. Even before he arrives, he encounters French and Americans who reveal to him the unsettling depths of a conflict he thought he understood -- and in Saigon, the Vietnamese add yet another dimension. Before long, the rampant missteps and misplaced ideals trap Parade and others in a moral crossfire.
LC Classification NumberPS3560.U75D36 1999
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