Word: lake
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harmony Shupp East lake, Ohio...
Cacciato is the goofy kid who fishes the Lake Country, a bombed-out region where the shellholes are filled only with dirty water and corpses, or worse, pieces of them. His courage is not in question; the Company remembers how Cacciato got the Silver Star for shooting a Viet Cong in the teeth. But one day the goofy kid checks out, marching to Paris, and the squad is sent to bring him back--Paul Berlin, Doc Paret, Oscar Johnson, the Lieutenant, and the rest--but in Paris they lose him, just as they lost him all along the way. This...
...scream. The prose itself is cool, boldly surreal for an American writer--magically realistic. That may be the only way an individual can capture and filter and finally understand the ultimate horror of Vietnam: stripping naked a burnt-out old man to search him for weapons, fishing the Lake Country for fish who don't live in shell craters. Even these vulgarities don't match the ones that flashed on our television screens every night for the better part of a decade--the Saigon police chief with his gun to the head of a suspect, Buddhist monks on fire...
...Susquehanna River runs a 444-mile course from its point of origin at Otsego Lake in New York to Maryland's Chesapeake...
Like his enormously successful Watership Down and Shardik, Richard Adams' third novel relies heavily on animal magnetism. This time out, two plucky dogs named Rowf and Snitter escape from an experimental station in the English Lake District, where they have been treated bestially by doctors. Freedom means surviving in the inhospitable countryside and dodging much of the British population, which incorrectly believes the animals have been inoculated with plague. On their journey the beleaguered canines are aided by a roguish fox. It is hard to say anything critical about such a heartwarming story...