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Bombingham

Bombingham

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Written by Anthony GroomsAuthor Alerts: Random House will alert you to new works by Anthony Grooms

  • Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
  • Publisher: One World/Ballantine
  • On Sale: October 1, 2002
  • Price: $13.95
  • ISBN: 978-0-345-45293-1 (0-345-45293-3)
about this book

From the war-torn rice fields of Vietnam to the riot-filled streets of Birmingham, Alabama, Bombingham is the affecting story of a middle-class black family shattered by its personal chaos. As young African-American Walter Burke struggles to make sense of his presence in Vietnam, he wonders if the victory of the civil rights movement meant nothing more than being sent into a battlefield of another kind. Joining two pivotal periods in the American experience, this beautifully written novel from the winner of the 1996 Lillian Smith Award for Fiction makes an important contribution to our understanding of the period.
“A captivating and unsentimental recollection of daily life in the segregated South.”
—Booklist