Don't Mean Nothing

In this debut fiction collection--the first by a nurse who served in Viet Nam--Susan O'Neill offers a glimpse into the war from a female perspective. These stories are about women, and men, who served in three combat hospitals in 1969 and 1970. They are interconnected, peopled by one-time "stars" and recurring characters, and they deal both with both the minutia of everyday life in wartime, and grander, more over-reaching themes--love and loss, faith and despair, morality, futility, military idiosyncrasy, magic, and the cost to the soul of a year in war's very particular hell. The stories are purely fictional, yet based loosely on the author's experiences, and they are laced as liberally with black humor as with pathos.

• | Author: Susan O'Neill
• | Publisher: Serving House Books
• | Publication Date: Mar 01, 2001
• | Number of Pages: 254 pages
• | Binding: Paperback or Softback
• | ISBN-10: 0982546270
• | ISBN-13: 9780982546277