Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #328808 in Books
• Published on: 2005-08
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

Customer Reviews

Welcome to the postmodern South
Behind its postmodern facade of M.A.S.H. episodes and Bruce Springsteen lyrics In Country is a detective story in which Mason's teenage narrator seeks the truth about the father she has never known (he was killed in Vietnam). However, as she puts the pieces of her father's past together, she learns not only about him but about her whole family, the vietnam war and its consequences, but most of all she learns about herself, and as such In Country becomes a rite-of-passage into adulthood.

In this novel as in her other works Mason continues to explore the meaning of the past, the present, and the continuity of time.

A great read which will grow on you for a long time after you have finished it.

Great book on psychological effects of the war
In Country is not only a very pleasant book but it has a magic power and manages to turn the reader into a character. It also concerns a wide range of public from Vietnam veterans to anyone who lost a relative in a war. The language used by the characters is quite interesting and real!!! It is a great book and B.A. Mason is one of the best contemporary American Writers.

It's a great story, but you must be patient, it can be slow.
"In Country," by Bobbie Anne Mason is a great story about a girl that lost her father in the Vietnam War. She lived a wild life without a father. Her mother living nearby, but her, in her late teens, lives with her uncle. She has no discipline, yet gets along well. Her main strugle throughout the book is finding out what Vietnam was really like. She also wants to know what her father was like, since she never even met him. Her uncle, was in the war, but he made it home alive. Sam, the young girl, is worried about her uncle, scared that he has Agent Orange. All she has is him, and she doesn't want to lose him to the war too. All of this takes place in the early 80's. She is dealing with the past, in the future. Some things just never go away. There is so much more to this book, and if you love to read books about Vietnam or even just like to read, then I would recomend this story. It's not too long, and wouldn't take up too much time. Sometimes the book moves rather slowly, and you must be patient with it. The main theme from the book is that things in the past, really do still effect us today.