MATTERHORN: A Novel of the Vietnam War • Karl Marlantes • 1ST EDITION 2ND PRINT

Description: Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War, by Karl Marlantes. First Edition, Second Printing. 2010. Atlantic Monthly Press: New York, NY. 598 pp. 8vo. Boards fully bound in cornflower blue paper with gilt lettering on spine. 978-0-8021-1928-5. This is a big, powerful saga of men in combat with an interesting publication history: the author, a highly decorated Vietnam vet, spent over three decades writing it and received countless rejections before it finally hit shelves in 2010. This debut novel has been reprinted in hardcover more than a dozen times since then, so we were pleased to find such an early edition in excellent condition. Book: Very Good+. A tight, crisp copy. The spine is square and the interior free of markings. Not a remainder. Dust Jacket: Very Good. An excellent DJ with no signs of wear save two tiny tears along upper corners of the jacket. This jacket is now protected in an archival cover to preserve its state. 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.

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