This book is a National Book Award Winner.

"Intense, vividly writtena very frightening, yet wondrously rendered tale of violent extremes of human behavior.
A strongly emotional reading experience, it is highly recommended for collections of serious contemporary
fiction."Library Journal

"Larry Heinemann isthe grunt's novelist of the Vietnam War. His is the storytelling of life and death between the laager
and the treeline, a life of dirt, fear, dope, alcohol, brutality, curses and evil."Washington Post Book World

"[A] well-written, ruminative workHeinemann has a promising talent."Publishers Weekly

The only man in Alpha Company to survive a cataclysmic Vietcong attack, Paco Sullivan is sent back to the U.S. with
his legs full of pins, daily rations of Librium and Valium, and no sense of what to do next. One evening, he limps off a
bus and into the small town of Boone, determined to find a real lifebut no matter how hard he works, nothing muffles
the anguish in his mind and body. Brilliantly and vividly written, Paco's Story plunges the reader into the violence
and casual cruelty of the Vietnam War, and the ghostly aftermath that often dealt the harshest blows.

Larry Heinemann, a Vietnam vet, is the author of Paco's Story, the National Book Award-winning novel. He lives in Chicago, Illinois.

Richard Ferrone is an award-winning narrator. He has acted on Broadway with the National Actors Theatre and was a member of the Tony Award-winning Trinity Rep. He has appeared in several popular TV series including Law & Order and Against the Law.