The Post-War Dream

Mitch Cullin

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Sixty-eight-year-old Hollis and his wife Debra have settled into their golden years in a gated community outside of Tucson, Arizona. Although they are devoted to each other, events that took place decades earlier, when Hollis fought in the Korean War, have left him with a deep-seated trauma -- and with a secret he has never been able to share with his wife. As a reluctant Hollis revisits his past after his wife becomes dangerously ill, we see just how much the years of war changed his life forever. In rapturous prose, Cullin captures in The Post-War Dream the complexity of a marriage and the indelible force of the past on one man's life.

Book Details

Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publish Date: Mar 10th, 2009
Pages: 256
Language: English
Edition: undefined - undefined
Dimensions: 8.00in - 5.22in - 0.59in - 0.41lb
EAN: 9781400078233
Categories: • Literary

About the Author

Mitch Cullin is the author of eight books, including A Slight Trick of the Mind, Tideland, and Branches, a novel-in-verse. He lives outside of Tokyo, Japan, where in addition to writing fiction he collaborates on various projects with the artist Peter I. Chang.

Praise for this book

"Exacting, suspenseful, elegiac yet life-embracing."--Los Angeles Times"Cullin followers will recognize the same sharp psychologist who meditated on deterioration in his previous novel, A Slight Trick of the Mind." --San Francisco Chronicle"Mitch Cullin's fine novel The Post-War Dream is as much about love as it is about coming to terms with memories. . . . A sensitively told, finely crafted story." --The Denver Post