From
the Beatnik cafes of San Francisco, hanging out
with the likes of Ginsberg, to an Army boot camp
in Georgia, this novel explores America's entry
into Vietnam seen through the eyes of a young man
caught up in the madness.
“Other wars have inspired not only best selling tales
of heroic but also biting satires. Vietnam
did not. Not, that is, until Bob Biderman gave us his
superb Letters to Nanette…”
About
Books, American Library Association
“Set in 1963, this wonderfully warm novel imaginatively
recaptures the American atmosphere at the beginning
of the Vietnam War and depicts one man’s resolve to
meet manhood on his own terms. Letters to Nanette is
really one long, open letter to a young nation that
refuses to throw off its own adolescent misconceptions
of growing up.
ALA
Booklist
“Letters to Nanette explores richly and humorously,
one of the dilemmas faced fy the early ‘60s generation. The
alienated bohemianism of North Beach and Berkely that
became a well spring for the movements beginning to
emerge gives the book a substantial flavor of an all-too-faded
history."
San
Francisco Review of Books
“This book provides not only good reading but a profitable
trip back to a fateful moment in national history.”
Choice
Magazine, Book Selection Journal for University Libraries
“A terrific book! It
made me laugh and cry. Important
and timely…”
Bob
Fass, WBAI Radio, New York City
“A truly wonderful book…covers a major chunk of my
generation’s history.”
Kris
Welch, KPFA Morning Show, Berkeley
Bob
Biderman's complete list of titles can be found at: www.bobbiderman.com