The Fearless Man - Tapa blanda

On its publication in 1982 James Carroll called Donald Pfarrer's Neverlight 'the most intelligent and moving novel that I have read about Vietnam'. Paul Fussell wrote that it was 'one of the finest novels "about war" I've ever read, and that includes A Farewell to Arms'. Now, more than twenty years later, Pfarrer revisits the conflict and creates a modern classic - an epic war novel that bears comparison with Mailer's The Naked and the Dead. Captain MacHugh Clare is a seasoned soldier. His men respect him above all others. His mission is to lead his company into the mountains and destroy a hidden cache of the enemy's weapons. This incursion stirs up a deadly resistance. With Mac is Paul Adrano, a Catholic chaplain who has volunteered to serve in combat to test his faith - and test it he does. Adrano also slowly realizes that his vow of celibacy is incompatible with his feelings for Rebecca Vanburen, a Navy nurse treating wounded marines at Da Nang. As Mac's company struggles with the North Vietnamese, The Fearless Man also tells of the struggle of Sarah Clare back home, of her awakening to the new opportunities opening for women in the late sixties. The Fearless Man gives the reade

Donald Pfarrer is the author of Cold River, Neverlight, and Temple and Shipman. He lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts.