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Matterhorn

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  • Colby Award (2011)
  • Exclusive Books Boeke Prize Nominee (2011)
  • Indies Choice Book Award for Debut Book (2011)
  • W.Y. Boyd Literary Award for Excellence in Military Fiction (2011)
  • James Fenimore Cooper Prize (2011)
  • Washington State Book Award for Fiction (2011)
  • The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize (2010)
  • Dublin Literary Award Nominee for Shortlist (2012)
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Matterhorn

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ISBN: 9780857891518
Authors: Karl Marlantes
Publisher: Corvus
Date of Publication: 2011-01-01
Format: Paperback
Related Collections: Literary Fiction, Historical Fiction
Related Topics: Literature, Asia, War
Goodreads rating: 4.25
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Description

A big, powerful saga of men in combat, written over the course of thirty-five years by a highly decorated Vietnam veteran.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 over the course of thirty years by a highly decorated Vietnam veteran, Matterhorn is a visceral and spellbinding novel about what it is like to be a young man at war. It is an unforgettable novel that transforms the tragedy of Vietnam into a powerful and universal story of courage, camaraderie, and sacrifice: a parable not only of the war in Vietnam but of all war, and a testament to the redemptive power of literature.A graduate of Yale University and a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University, Karl Marlantes served as a Marine in Vietnam, where he was awarded the Navy Cross, the Bronze Star, two Navy Commendation Medals for valor, two Purple Hearts, and ten air medals. This is his first novel. He lives in rural Washington State.
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  • Colby Award (2011)
  • Exclusive Books Boeke Prize Nominee (2011)
  • Indies Choice Book Award for Debut Book (2011)
  • W.Y. Boyd Literary Award for Excellence in Military Fiction (2011)
  • James Fenimore Cooper Prize (2011)
  • Washington State Book Award for Fiction (2011)
  • The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize (2010)
  • Dublin Literary Award Nominee for Shortlist (2012)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.