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For Rouenna / Sigrid Nunez.

by Nunez, Sigrid.

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Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2001.

Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Medical care -- Fiction.

Female friendship -- Fiction.

Women authors -- Fiction.

Nurses -- Fiction.

Death -- Fiction.

9780374254308 (hardcover : alk. paper)

0374254303 (hardcover : alk. paper)

1st Picador USA ed.

230 p. ; 22 cm.

"From one of the most celebrated novelists of her generation, the story of a woman in the Vietnam War "After my first book was published, I received some letters." So begins Sigrid Nunez's haunting novel about the poignant and unusual friendship between a writer and a retired army nurse who seeks her out decades after their childhood in the same housing project. Among the letters the narrator receives is one from a Rouenna Zycinski, recalling their old connection and asking if they can meet.Though fascinated by the stories Rouenna tells about her life as a combat nurse in Vietnam, the narrator flatly declines her request that they collaborate on a memoir. It is only later, in the aftermath of Rouenna's shocking death, that the narrator is drawn to write about her friend--and her friend's war. Writing Rouenna's story becomes all-consuming, at once a necessity and the only consolation. For Rouenna, an unforgettable novel about truth, memory, and unexpected heroism by one of the most gifted writers of her generation, is also a remarkable and surprising new look at war."--Publisher description.

Psychological fiction.

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