The names of rivers

Description:

"The Names of Rivers is a tightly crafted search for redemption and forgiveness within the shadows of a family's past. Set in a 1980s rustbelt town south of Chicago, the novel tells the story of Bruno Konick, an aged veteran of "the good war" who has spent a lifetime haunted by his own actions during the liberation of Dachau Concentration Camp; and his grandson Luke, a teenage boy forever dreaming of heroism in a post-Vietnam America. Together, they watch Luke's father, Bruce, an unemployed factory worker badly disfigured during the siege of Khe Sanh, wander toward his suicidal end in a cornfield ruined by a freakish ice storm. When Bruno's youngest son Len unexpectedly returns home, recovered from the heroin addiction he learned as a hospital corpsman in Saigon, he brings with him an old wound that Bruno Konick can never let himself touch."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: Vietnamese Conflict, 1961-1975,  Vietnam War, 1961-1975,  Grandfathers,  Grandparent and child,  Fathers and sons,  Fiction,  Psychological aspects of Vietnam War, 1961-1975,  Conflict of generations,  World War, 1939-1945,  Heroes,  Veterans,  Fiction, psychological,  Fiction, sagas,  Veterans, fiction,  Brothers, fiction,  Fathers and sons, fiction,  Psychological aspects

Places: Illinois,  United States