Dog Soldiers
by Robert Stone
read: 2016
Time 100 Novels
Dog Soldiers is set in the Vietnam War, and like modern war novels Gravity's Rainbow, Catch-22, and Slaughterhouse Five, it has a wicked sense of dark humor. However, despite the title and temporal setting, Dog Soldiers isn't a war novel. There are no battle scenes, but the world of the novel and the actions of the characters are affected by the war. The characters do a lot, but they seem to be almost sleepwalking through their actions, going through the motions in a world where war has devalued human life.
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