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After her hermit Kenny was killed in a Mekong Delta, Diana Dell went to Vietnam with USO. Her brief stories are not about battles, blood, gore, or angst. They are about participants of a fight other than grunts: fight profiteers, front jockeys, stone stars, landladies, pedicab drivers, film stars, pickpockets, beggars, journalists, luminary tourists, and other REMFs. Irreverent, outrageous, cynical, satirical, intelligent, and judicious are a few of a difference used to report "A Saigon Party: And Other Vietnam War Short Stories."
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #242706 in eBooks
- Published on: 2008-05-13
- Released on: 2008-05-13
- Format: Kindle eBook
- Number of items: 1
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About a Author
Diana Dell was innate in 1946 in East Vandergrift, Pennsylvania, where she grew up, and graduated from West Virginia University with a class in journalism. She worked as a publisher on a journal and also taught second and seventh class classes. In 1970, after her hermit Kenny was killed in a Mekong Delta, she went to Vietnam as a municipal with USO. There she was a module executive in Cam Ranh Bay and executive of open family in Saigon, where she hosted "USO Showtime," a daily module on American Forces Vietnam Network (AFVN) radio. In addition, she set adult "Feed a Children" programs in orphanages, concurrent programs and broadside for a 14 centers in-country, and escorted USO shows and visiting celebrities around Vietnam--from a Delta to a DMZ. Upon withdrawal Vietnam, following a Easter Offensive in 1972, she worked in Europe for a year as broadside executive during a Frankfurt USO and dual years as a freelance author and photographer in Athens and Madrid. After owning an promotion group in Massachusetts for 10 years, she taught Vietnam War story and broadcasting classes during Tampa College. Diana divides her essay time between Boston and Clearwater, Florida. She is also a author of Memories Are Like Clouds, a childhood discourse set in a 1950s.
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11 of 12 people found a following examination helpful.
The REMF Reviews "A Saigon Party"
By David A. Willson
I served in Vietnam in a behind with a drink and a rigging for 13 1/2 months, 1966-1967. No improved book has been created about that Saigon knowledge than Dell's "A Saigon Party." If a reader is extraordinary about what kind of debate of avocation many had who served in a troops during a American fight in a pleasing nation of South Vietnam, Dell's glorious book is a place to start. "A Saigon Party" is a book of good wit and compassion, and Dell is brave, resourceful, and successful in her use of a many voices of a Vietnam War. Dell gives Robert Olen Butler's Vietnamese voices in "A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain" a run for their money. we am now a librarian who spent most time in libraries in Vietnam (both for a books and a atmosphere conditioning) so we generally enjoyed Dell's story "The Library Card." we also desired a Ken and Barbie stories and wish there was a whole book of them. The "CIA Wife" story is a good story and unequivocally funny. The CIA deservedly gets severe and smart treatment. For those of we still wondering because we mislaid a fight in SE Asia, these stories yield a reasons.
Sincerely, David A. Willson, author of REMF Diary, The REMF Returns and In a Army Now.
11 of 12 people found a following examination helpful.
A truly conspicuous book in opposite viewpoint than others
By Franklin D. Rast
Miss Dell is a innate story-teller, and her stories are like nothing of a others ever created about per a complexity, intrigue, and follies of a Vietnam war. The joke is loyal and biting, though it is high-time someone such as Dell presents this indicate of perspective with a fairness that bears all a small famous contribution about how many Americans and Vietnamese operated during a fight that has not been created about. Dell's stories are fast, and a points done are deftly designed to make we contemplate and go behind to examination them benefit and again. "Yep, that's a approach it unequivocally was, how we always felt like---that's how ol' Mister Charles got over on us Americans and South Vietnamese during a war," we mostly mused, half-offended that a exposed law was now being created by a smart small blonde whose hermit had been killed in Nam, and she had a bravery to go see for herself what a fight was unequivocally all about. The book is a bellringer of law about a group and women held adult in a play of fight in a outlandish universe of Asia; as is formidable as a pleasant night with a moon simmering over a wind-bending jungles and splendid ostentatious lights of Saigon, while her genuine life characters usually tell it like it was, and leaves we emotional for some-more stories as a final page is turned. Dell's stories upsurge in discriminating cadences of witt, terror, evil, passion, shame, and a wily genius of a puzzling Eastern approach of thinking. The politicans and generals of a side competence have been meditative a small opposite if Dell's constrained views of a approach it unequivocally was had been created about before a United States impasse in a war. Marvelous storytelling, and laced with astonishing complexities, make this a contingency examination for any chairman wanting a book that they can disappear for days into and emerge with a most differnet perspective of a approach things were in Nam as presented by a news media and other writers of a era. "A Saigon Party," is an critical and literary glorious book that is not to be ignored. Sincerely, Franklin D. Rast, author, "Don's Nam," and "Ghosts In The Wire."
7 of 7 people found a following examination helpful.
Humorous and angry, high tales about a war
By Susan O'Neill
I didn't utterly know what to design when we bought this book; I've usually begun reading books by womanlike Viet Nam vets given edition my collection, and this is a initial novella other than my possess that I've encountered. What we found, to my warn and a delight, kept me entertained via a discerning reading.
These are humorous tales, ungodly to a fault, firm to provoke someone, be it a Red Cross, a USO, or a troops establishment--hell, generally a troops establishment. Some of them are genuine whoppers, spun with panache--I generally desired Dell's depiction of a Ho Chi Minh Trail (by now, she's substantially right). As is always a box with good satire, a amusement here is fueled with a frail anger.
If we are meddlesome in a opposite point on a Viet Nam dispute from someone who's been there, a author with a Mark Twain puckishness, this is really your book.
Susan Kramer O'Neill, author
Don't Mean Nothing: Short Stories of Viet Nam
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