Richard Currey

• May-1988
• / General Fiction
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A devastating portrait of war in all its horror, brutality, and mindlessness, this extraordinary novel is written in beautifully cadenced prose. A combat medic in Vietnam faces the chaos of war, set against the tranquil scenes of family life back hom...

• Jan-1990
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The lives of the working class in West Virginia -- a train engineer, an epileptic, coal miners and outlaws, the fragile and dispossessed -- are explored in this powerful yet tender collection of six short stories and a novella. They depict an isolate...

• Jun-1993
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In 1980, Richard Currey published Crossing Over to wide critical acclaim. Best described as flash fiction, Crossing Over is hybrid prose-poetry about one young man's journey through the Vietnam War. Adapted for the stage, and praised by antiwar activ...

• May-1997
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Lost Highway has attracted a legion of admirers since its initial publication in 1998, and this 2nd edition contains an additional chapter omitted from the 1st edition and an introduction by James Lee Burke. The book depicts the epic struggle of an o...