Bamboo Bed
William Eastlake author Eastlake William author
Format:Paperback
Publisher:Dalkey Archive Press
Published:22nd Dec '05
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
-- 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.
"The Bamboo Bed says more about the Vietnam atrocities... than all the photographs, interviews, news copy, and trial transcripts." -- New Republic "This is a very funny novel, one that catches your laughter up with catharsis, changing the fun into reflection... " -- Library Journal "William Eastlake is the funniest, most profound, most musical writer I've read in years." -- Robie Macauley, New York Times
ISBN: 9781564782649
Dimensions: 216mm x 140mm x 22mm
Weight: 435g
350 pages