Bamboo Bed

by Eastlake William, William Eastlake

Overview

— Dying in a bamboo bed, Captain Clancy hallucinates several philosophical conversations with a snake and a tiger. Meanwhile, Captain Knightbridge and Nurse Jane of the Search & Rescue Unit have sex in their helicopter — the Bamboo Bed — at 10,000 feet, setting a wartime record. Down below, two hippy kids wander the forest trying to end the Vietnam war with a dream and a guitar. In the tradition of Catch-22 and Dr. Strangelove, The Bamboo Bed treats with hilarity and outrage the grim absurdity of war.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781564782649
Publisher:	Deep Vellum Publishing
Publication date:	12/03/2005
Series:	American Literature
Edition description:	First Dalkey Archive
Pages:	350
Product dimensions:	5.54(w) x 8.54(h) x 0.90(d)

Editorial Reviews

"The Bamboo Bed says more about the Vietnam atrocities... than all the photographs, interviews, news copy, and trial transcripts." --New Republic

Dalkey Archive Press

"This is a very funny novel, one that catches your laughter up with catharsis, changing the fun into reflection.... " --Library Journal

Dalkey Archive Press

"William Eastlake is the funniest, most profound, most musical writer I've read in years." --Robie Macauley, New York Times

Dalkey Archive Press

From the Publisher

"Set in [Sixties'] Vietnam, this novel illuminates through its thoroughly black humor the abject horror of warfare, what it does to the men who must fight," said LJ's reviewer, adding that "this is a very funny novel, but one that catches your laughter up with catharsis, changing the fun into reflection." Eastlake was a journalist in Vietnam, so much of this rings true. (LJ 8/69) Copyright 2001 Cahners Business Information.

Library Journal