{"product_id":"dont-mean-nothing-9780982546277","title":"Don't Mean Nothing","description":"In this debut fiction collection--the first by a nurse who served in Viet Nam--Susan O'Neill offers a glimpse into the war from a female perspective. These stories are about women, and men, who served in three combat hospitals in 1969 and 1970. They are interconnected, peopled by one-time \"stars\" and recurring characters, and they deal both with both the minutia of everyday life in wartime, and grander, more over-reaching themes--love and loss, faith and despair, morality, futility, military idiosyncrasy, magic, and the cost to the soul of a year in war's very particular hell. The stories are purely fictional, yet based loosely on the author's experiences, and they are laced as liberally with black humor as with pathos.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSusan O'Neill spent a year as an Army nurse in Viet Nam during the war. This is her first book. She has published short fiction and non-fiction in an eclectic variety of magazines, newspapers, anthologies, internet and audio media, and co-edits Vestal Review, a literary magazine for \"Flash\" fiction. She lives in Brooklyn. Http: \/\/susanoneill.us\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Serving House Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50670583611666,"sku":"9780982546277","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_9cf77615-e16e-4fbd-848c-09229b8b99d1.jpg?v=1737244093","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/dont-mean-nothing-9780982546277","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}