Richard Currey - Crossing Over
Product Details:
Paperback: 60 Pages
ISBN-13: 978-1939650467
About the Book
In 1980, Richard Currey published Crossing Over to wide critical acclaim and a Pulitzer Prize nomination. Best described as flash fiction, Crossing Over is hybrid prose-poetry about one young man’s journey through the Vietnam War. Adapted for the stage, and praised by antiwar activist Daniel Berrigan, Currey brings us vignettes from the war-torn jungles.
Crossing Over has long been regarded as one of the Vietnam Era’s most evocative literary works. Cited by Library Journal as a ‘Best of the Small Presses,’ the prose poems and vignettes of Crossing Over formed the basis of Currey’s 1988 novel Fatal Light, cited by Tim O’Brien as “one of the very best works of fiction to emerge from the Vietnam War.”
About the Author
Richard Currey served in Vietnam from 1968 to 1972 in the U.S. Navy. He was trained in jungle warfare and special operations, and was a medical corpsman attached to the Marine Corps’s Fleet Marine Force. He has written Crossing Over: A Vietnam Journal, which went on to vast acclaim and a Pulitzer Prize nomination, and Lost Highway. He lives in Washington, DC.