Route 66 to Vietnam: A Draftee's Story

by Michael Lund PhD, John Lund (Illustrator)

Overview

This novel takes characters from earlier works in the Route 66 Novel Series farther west than Los Angeles, official destination of the famous highway, Route 66. Mark Landon and Billy Rhodes find the values they grew up on challenged by America's role in Southeast Asia. But elements of their upbringing represented by the Mother Road also sustain them in ways they could never have anticipated.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781596300002
Publisher:	BeachHouse Books
Publication date:	01/01/2005
Pages:	362
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

Michael Lund grew up in Rolla, Missouri. He received an A.B. from Washington University in St. Louis (1967) and the Ph.D. in English from Emory University in Atlanta (1973). In 1970-71 he served as an Army correspondent in Vietnam. A scholar of nineteenth-century serial novels, he teaches college composition and literature. He and his wife of 35 years live in Virginia and are parents of two grown children.