New York:: Random House,, (1999). SIGNED hardcover first edition -. Fine in a very near fine dust jacket.. First printing. The author's very highly praised first novel, one which looks at the toll the Vietnam War took on the women who loved the men who went there - "for every soldier in a rice paddy, there was a mother, a sister, a lover back home; when their men came back changed by the experience of war, life changed for the women, as well. . . this depicts the lives of three returned veterans and the women who love them. The story begins in 1973, shortly after Rooster, Frankie, Nick, Sean, Rod, and Jason return home from Vietnam, and it's obvious something's not quite right." Susan Faludi commented that Gologorsky "shines a brilliant and disturbing light into a time and place too long left in shadows by American literature. With great compassion and insight, she opens up to us not only the psychic realm of returned Vietnam vets but the even more neglected stories of the women--wives and daughters both--who loved them." SIGNED on the title page and dated in the year of publication. Review copy with publisher's material and the author's photograph laid in. 211 pp.

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Beverly Gologorsky has been an activist in the women's and peace movements. She lives in New York and works in legal-medical publishing.Her partner, Charles Wiggins, lives in New England, where Gologorsky spends a good deal of time. She has a daughter, Georgina. From the Hardcover edition.

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Bookseller: Bookfever.com, IOBA (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: 84169
Title: THE THINGS WE DO TO MAKE IT HOME.
Author: Gologorsky, Beverly
Format/Binding: SIGNED hardcover first edition -
Book Condition: Used - Fine in a very near fine dust jacket.
Jacket Condition: very near fine
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0375502017
ISBN 13: 9780375502019
Publisher: Random House,
Place of Publication: New York:
Date Published: (1999)
Keywords: vietnam war, review copy, women authors,
Bookseller catalogs: First book or first novel;

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