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Nothing Left To Lose Pub. Date: 8/1/2011 Publisher: Plain View Press
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Nothing Left To Lose Pub. Date: 10/30/2011 Publisher: Plain View Press

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The year is 1968 and the Vietnam War is at its height. William Carson, a World War II veteran teaching in a small New England Prep School, has for more than two decades been haunted by nightmares whose content he has never shared with his wife, Anne, or their two sons, Joshua, a Marine on active duty in Vietnam, and Andrew, an ROTC college senior bound for active duty following graduation. When Joshua is reported missing in combat, the web of secrets and denial that has kept the family together for more than twenty years begins to unravel as Anne and William face the possible loss of their sons, and Andrew must confront the tangle of love, obligation, and loyalty that he feels toward his country, his father, his brother, his mother, and himself.

Nothing Left to Lose is a story of betrayal across generations—of fathers who send their sons to war and mothers who let them go—and the redeeming power of love and forgiveness.

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“In Nothing Left To Lose, the hard teachings of the Vietnam War are reflected in one family’s anguished choices, and with a depth of compassion that reveals fresh meaning for us today. This beautiful and engrossing novel lets us see with fresh eyes what war-making costs the soul of a nation, and especially its men. Here we find both a chronicle of an age and a prayer for our future, perfectly tuned to this historical moment.”

Joanna Macy, author of World as Lover, World as Self

“Allan Johnson’s mournful yet ultimately hopeful novel captures beautifully what history textbooks always miss: that wars overseas exact enormous emotional and familial costs at home, and that for men especially, it can be just as heroic to resist wars as it is to fight in them.”

Jackson Katz, Ph.D., creator of video Tough Guise: Violence, Media and the Crisis in Masculinity and author of The Macho Paradox

About the Author

Allan G. Johnson is a writer, sociologist, and public speaker who has focused most of his career on issues of social inequality. His nonfiction books have been translated into several languages and his novel,

The First Thing and the Last, was recognized by Publishers Weekly as a notable debut work of fiction in 2010 and by O Magazine as an April 2010 Great Read.

Website: www.agjohnson.com

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Jackson Katz

Allan Johnson's mournful yet ultimately hopeful novel captures beautifully what history textbooks always miss: that wars overseas exact enormous emotional and familial costs at home, and that for men especially, it can be just as heroic to resist wars as it is to fight in them. (Jackson Katz, Ph.D., creator of video, Tough Guise: Violence, Media and the Crisis in Masculinity and author of The Macho Paradox)

Joanna Macy

In Nothing Left to Lose, the hard teachings of the Vietnam War are reflected in one family's anguished choices, and with a depth of compassion that reveals fresh meaning for us today. This beautiful and engrossing novel lets us see with fresh eyes what war-making costs the soul of a nation, and especially its men. Here we find both a chronicle of an age and a prayer for our future, perfectly tuned to this historical moment. (Joanna Macy, author of World as Lover, World as Self)

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Set in the late 1960s, Johnson's (The First Thing and the Last) second novel is not so much a war novel as a story about the effects of war, both on soldiers and on those around them. William Carson is a history teacher and a World War II veteran still suffering nightmares from his combat experiences. His older son, Joshua, is a marine in Vietnam, and the younger, Andrew, is about to graduate from college and receive his army commission. When Joshua is reported missing in action, family wounds are opened, threatening William's relationships with his wife and Andrew. Occasionally the characters seem like symbols rather than real people, but Johnson provides fascinating insights into issues such as post-traumatic stress disorder and grief. VERDICT This novel should appeal to those who like their families, as Tolstoy wrote in Anna Karenina, unhappy in their own way. Book clubs will find plenty to discuss with all the issues raised.—Dan Forrest, Western Kentucky Univ., Bowling Green

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781935514947
Publisher: Plain View Press
Publication date: 8/1/2011
Pages: 292
Sales rank: 640,458
Product dimensions: 0.66 (w) x 6.00 (h) x 9.00 (d)

Meet the Author

Allan G. Johnson is a nationally recognized writer, novelist, and public speaker who has worked on issues of privilege, oppression, and social inequality since receiving his Ph.D. in sociology from the University of Michigan in 1972. His nonfiction writing has been translated into several languages and excerpted in numerous anthologies. His novels, The First Thing and the Last and Nothing Left to Lose, come from a lifelong devotion to the art of writing coupled with a passionate commitment to understanding what it means to be a human being in a complex world full of unnecessary suffering. He shares his life with Nora L. Jamieson, a writer, healer, and gatherer of women. They live in the hills of northwestern Connecticut.

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