Karl Marlantes: Matterhorn

06/06/2010 1:00 pm
06/06/2010 3:00 pm

DEBUT NOVELIST

KARL MARLANTES

Signing Copies Of His Breakout Novel

The early buzz among booksellers for this debut novel is absolutely unanimous.  Karl Marlantes has written what may very well be the defining war novel of this generation. 

Matterhorn, A Novel Of The Vietnam War, has been called brilliant, raw, authentic and a grand, distinctive accomplishment.  We are certain that this will be the most talked about book of the Spring season. 

Remember that all books presented for signing must be purchased through the Clinton Book Shop.  To guarantee that you obtain a first edition/first printing of this novel, pre-register and purchase your book today.

$24.95
ISBN-13: 9780802119285
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Atlantic Monthly Press, 3/2010

Intense, powerful, and compelling, Matterhorn is an epic war novel in the tradition of Norman Mailer’s The Naked and the Dead and James Jones’s The Thin Red Line. It is the timeless story of a young Marine lieutenant, Waino Mellas, and his comrades in Bravo Company, who are dropped into the mountain jungle of Vietnam as boys and forced to fight their way into manhood. Standing in their way are not merely the North Vietnamese but also monsoon rain and mud, leeches and tigers, disease and malnutrition. Almost as daunting, it turns out, are the obstacles they discover between each other: racial tension, competing ambitions, and duplicitous superior officers. But when the company finds itself surrounded and outnumbered by a massive enemy regiment, the Marines are thrust into the raw and all-consuming terror of combat. The experience will change them forever.
Written by a highly decorated Marine veteran over the course of thirty years, Matterhorn is a spellbinding and unforgettable novel that brings to life an entire world—both its horrors and its thrills—and seems destined to become a classic of combat literature.


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