TY  - BOOK
AU  - Butler,Robert Olen
TI  - Perfume river: a novel 
SN  - 0802125751
AV  - PS3552.U8278 P4 2016
U1  - 813/.54 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - New York
PB  - Atlantic Monthly Press
KW  - Vietnam War (1961-1975)
KW  - fast
KW  - Historians
KW  - Florida
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Veterans
KW  - Family relationships
KW  - Families
KW  - Vietnam War, 1961-1975
N2  - Robert Quinlan is a seventy-year-old historian teaching at Florida State University, where his wife Darla is also tenured. Their marriage, forged in the fervor of anti-Vietnam War protests, now bears the fractures of time, both personal and historical, with the couple trapped in an existence of morning coffee and solitary jogging and separate offices. For Robert and Darla, the cracks remain under the surface, whereas the divisions in Robert's own family are more apparent: he has almost no relationship with his brother Jimmy, who became estranged from the family as the Vietnam War intensified. Robert and Jimmy's father, a veteran of WWII, is coming to the end of his life, and aftershocks of war ripple across their lives once again when Jimmy refuses to appear at his father's bedside. And an unstable homeless man whom Robert at first takes to be a fellow Vietnam veteran turns out to have a deep impact not just on Robert, but on his entire family
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