A Child’s Night Dream: A Novel by Oliver Stone (.PDF)
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A Child’s Night Dream: A Novel by Oliver Stone
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Overview: Anyone who is a fan of Oliver Stone’s films already knows the role Vietnam has played in both his personal and public lives. He’s made three films about the war and its aftermath: Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July and Heaven and Earth. He has also penned A Child’s Night Dream, a novel that skirts the borders of autobiography; the hero, after all, is called Oliver. The novel grew out of three major experiences in young Oliver’s life: his time as a civilian teacher in a Saigon Catholic school, his return to America aboard a merchant marine ship and his eventual return to Vietnam as a soldier.
Stone originally wrote this novel in 1966 at the age of 19. In a fit of frustration and despair after numerous rejections from publishers, Stone threw several sections of the manuscript into the East River and volunteered for the Vietnam of 1967. For many years, the remaining sections of the manuscript lay forgotten in a shoebox, until eventually Stone recovered them, rewrote the novel and published it in 1997.
Genre: Fiction > General Fiction/Classics
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