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The Bamboo Bed
William Eastlake
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Description for The Bamboo Bed
Paperback. Num Pages: 350 pages. BIC Classification: AP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 218 x 142 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
-- Dying in a bamboo bed, Captain Clancy hallucinates several philosophical conversations with a snake and a tiger. Meanwhile, Captain Knightbridge and Nurse Jane of the Search & Rescue Unit have sex in their helicopter -- the Bamboo Bed -- at 10,000 feet, setting a wartime record. Down below, two hippy kids wander the forest trying to end the Vietnam war with a dream and a guitar. In the tradition of Catch-22 and Dr. Strangelove, The Bamboo Bed treats with hilarity and outrage the grim absurdity of war.
-- Dying in a bamboo bed, Captain Clancy hallucinates several philosophical conversations with a snake and a tiger. Meanwhile, Captain Knightbridge and Nurse Jane of the Search & Rescue Unit have sex in their helicopter -- the Bamboo Bed -- at 10,000 feet, setting a wartime record. Down below, two hippy kids wander the forest trying to end the Vietnam war with a dream and a guitar. In the tradition of Catch-22 and Dr. Strangelove, The Bamboo Bed treats with hilarity and outrage the grim absurdity of war.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Dalkey Archive Press United States
Number of pages
350
Condition
New
Number of Pages
350
Place of Publication
Normal, IL, United States
ISBN
9781564782649
SKU
V9781564782649
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
Reviews for The Bamboo Bed
"The Bamboo Bed says more about the Vietnam atrocities... than all the photographs, interviews, news copy, and trial transcripts."
New Republic "This is a very funny novel, one that catches your laughter up with catharsis, changing the fun into reflection... "
Library Journal "William Eastlake is the funniest, most profound, most musical writer I've read in years."
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New Republic "This is a very funny novel, one that catches your laughter up with catharsis, changing the fun into reflection... "
Library Journal "William Eastlake is the funniest, most profound, most musical writer I've read in years."
... Read more