Girl by the Road at Night: A Novel of Vietnam
Sometimes a review of a book is almost as good as the book. Consider this line from novelist Philip Caputo's review of this book in the NY Times "Rabe delivers the blow in a single paragraph that is a masterpiece of compression. It wounds like the swift thrust of a thin, razor-sharp dagger; you don’t realize you’ve been stabbed until you see the blood."
With a review like that, how could the book be bad?