Prisoners Author:Wayne Karlin Fiction. Wayne Karlin's PRISONERS is "...a complex tale based heavily on Vietnam memories seen through a glass darkly, or pieced together like fragments of bone"--Kirkus Reviews. Called by Tim O'Brien "one of the most gifted writers to emerge from the Vietnam War," Wayne Karlin has written four previous novels: CROSSOVER, LOST ARMIES, THE EXTRAS... more » and US, and a memoir, RUMORS AND STONES. "Prisoners is superb. The reader is drawn into this powerful, richly-layered novel by the poetics of language, the compelling stories, and the wide-ranging themes. Ultimately we realize the various ways we are all prisoners of war..."--Bobbie Ann Mason.« less