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Title:

Looking for War and Other Stories
 

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Short Stories

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# Date Publisher Binding Cover
1 2004-00-00 Ontario Review Press  

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Blurb: 
Douglas Unger"s fiction is sharp-edged and compelling, whether he"s exploring his own boyhood on the street ("Autobiography") or the life of a student lab assistant who bonds with a burnt-out rhesus monkey ("Leslie and Sam") or the strange fate of a young woman who returns from a second honeymoon on a paradisiacal Brazilian island to succumb to a mysterious disease ("Tide Pool"). The collection is capped by the powerful novella "Looking for War," where a would-be war correspondent, whose older brother is a shell-shocked Vietnam vet, stumbles upon his own war in a grisly five-minute action in the jungles of Paraguay.