Laughing War

Toronto: Doubleday, 1980. First Canadian Edition. First Printing. 8vo. 22cm x 14.5cm. Publisher's black linen spine over orange paper covered boards. Dustjacket. Titled in gilt to spine, minor shelfwear, clean and strong in a bright dustjacket with some very light wear to the spine ends. A near fine copy. 295pp. Internally clean. Fore-edge untrimmed. A deftly written Catch-22 style departure from the majority of Vietnam fiction, dealing with a comedian playing for the GI's on an airbase outside Saigon, and his private war with the Base Commander played out on stage as much as in the jungle, culminating in the violence of the '68 Tet Offensive. A highly regarded novel from a journalist who covered the Vietnam War as a correspondent.