1993, ISBN: 9781558850682

Arte Publico Press, Houston, Texas, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Good. 200pp., last blank. Bottle green boards with gilt writing on the spine… mais…

Arte Publico Press, Houston, Texas, 1993. First Edition. Hardcover (Original Cloth). Very Good Condition/Good. 200pp., last blank. Bottle green boards with gilt writing on the spine. Slight bumping to the head of the spine. There is the remains of a sticker on the top of right-hand corner of the ffep., as well as a stamp stating "courtesy of Arte Publico Press". On the rear paste down the is the remains of a sticker. Illustrated dustwrapper, showing a line of soldiers and marching, with beige background and running on the front panel and spine. Spine is sunned with fading of the background colour. Chipping to the top spine edge and there is price clipping of the dustwrapper on the top right-hand corner of the front fold over. A novel of the Korean War, as seen by an average soldier -- in this case a Mexican American. This is the First USA Edition. Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Dust Jacket price-clipped. Please refer to accompanying picture (s). Quantity Available: 1. Category: Military & Warfare; Fiction -- Military ; ISBN: 1558850686. ISBN/EAN: 9781558850682. Inventory No: 0101638. . 9781558850682, Arte Publico Press, 1993<

ISBN: 9781558850682

In The Useless Servants, award-winning author Rolando Hinojosa captures the obscenity and pointlessness of war in the pages of a Korean War journal written by his fictional everyman, Rafe… mais…

In The Useless Servants, award-winning author Rolando Hinojosa captures the obscenity and pointlessness of war in the pages of a Korean War journal written by his fictional everyman, Rafe Buenrostro. Drawing from his own experiences, Hinojosa probes the mind of this Texas country boy who suddenly finds himself in an unknown country fighting in an undeclared war for an unknown reason. Meeting and befriending an unending stream of people who are gone as suddenly as they appear, Rafe alternately fears for his life and is bored to death. Dehumanized by the horrors that surround him, Rafe latches onto the one thing that offers hope for survival: his diary. He records his observations laconically and without emotion in a routine geared to survival and to becoming more effective in the performance of his grisly duty as an artilleryman. Media ><