The Life We Bury
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| Rating | : | 4.95 (585 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B00Z96QRFM |
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| Number of Pages | : | 340 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2018-01-28 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
character interaction and psychological aspects that make this a great story and read The back-jacket summary drew me in and proved (unlike so many novels) to be an honest pitch: A story about a student writer who, somewhat by chance, locates the subject of his biographical (college class) project at a nearby nursing home. The biographical subject, a Vietnam War vet who was convicted of rape and murder 30 years earlier, is dying of c. "The rethinking of the guilt of the Vietnam War" according to Robert Romaniello. As a 100 percent disabled Vietnam Veteran, due to Agent Orange exposure, I fully related to Carl Iverson.For years I couldn't speak about the war, whether because of the shame the American public cast upon our service, or because of my participation in the war itself.Sprayed and betrayed by our own government, then shunned by the rest of the country. Fantastic debut mystery! It’s not particularly often that my wife reads and enjoys any of the books that cross my path. Whilst I endeavour to read what she reads (eventually) she doesn’t feel the same need to reciprocate, nor should she. Our last shared and loved book in common was Jess Walter’s Beautiful Ruins last year, until Eskens debut The Life We Bur
Carl is a dying Vietnam veteran-and a convicted murderer. Aided by his skeptical neighbor, Lila, Joe throws himself into uncovering the truth. There he meets Carl Iverson, and soon nothing in Joe's life is ever the same. His task is to interview a stranger and write a brief biography of the person. But as he and Lila dig deeper into the circumstances of the crime, the stakes grow higher. As Joe writes about Carl's life, especially Carl's valor in Vietnam, he cannot reconcile the heroism of the soldier with the despicable acts of the convict. With only a few months to live, he has been medically paroled to a nursing home after spending thirty years in prison for the crimes of rape and murder. Will Joe discover the truth before it's too late to escape the fallout?. With deadlines looming, Joe heads to a nearby nursing home to find a willing subject. Thread by thread, he begins to unravel the tapestry of Carl's conviction. College student Joe Talbert has the modest goal of completing a writing assignment for an English class