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Book Review of Sympathy for the Devil

Sympathy for the Devil
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Among the best Vietnam war fiction. For admirers of If I Die in a Combat Zone, or Going After Cacciato (both by Tim O'Brien), or Gustav Hasford's The Short-Timers. Anderson's prose is deadly hard stuff, the textual equivalent of a LRRP's thousand-yard-stare. A survivor's unapologetic tale, to be sure.