The Other Side of Heaven
By Wayne Karlin
1995
First Published
3.44
Average Rating
412
Number of Pages
These stories represent the "second wave" of fiction—works about the aftermath of the Vietnam conflict as it moved into both countries, touching and forever changing not only the veterans, but also their families and their societies. Contributors include John Edgar Wideman, Larry Brown, Robert Olen Butler, Philip Caputo, Bobbie Ann Mason, Ngo Tu Lap, Tim O'Brien, and others.
Avg Rating
3.44
Number of Ratings
25
5 STARS
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3 STARS
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2 STARS
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1 STARS
8%
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Author
Wayne Karlin
Author · 4 books
Wayne Karlin has written seven previous novels: Crossover, Lost Armies, The Extras, US, Prisoners, The Wished-For Country and Marble Mountain, and three non-fiction books: Rumors and Stones, War Movies, and Wandering Souls Karlin co-edited the first anthology of Viet Nam war veteran fiction, Free Fire Zone, and in 1995, he co-edited The Other Side of Heaven: Post War Fiction by Vietnamese and American Writers. He is the series editor for Curbstone's Voices from Viet Nam series of contemporary Vietnamese fiction. Karlin has received two Fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Paterson Prize for Fiction, the Vietnam Veterans Award for Excellence in the Arts and the Juniper Prize in Fiction for his new novel A Wolf by the Ears, to be released in March, 2020.
