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Lake Oswego resident publishes third book about Vietnam War
Novel Searching for Gurney follows lives of four soldiers, the effects of war.
Lake Oswego resident Jack Estes recently published his third book on the Vietnam War a conflict known in part for the poor treatment many soldiers experienced upon returning home.
Estes, who served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1968-69 as an infantryman, published Searching for Gurney Nov. 10 after working on this novel for about 20 years. The book follows the life of four soldiers and how they cope with the effects of the Vietnam War.
Estes previously published two books: A Soldier s Son which initially was written as a screenplay before he decided to turn it into a novel and A Field of Innocence, which was a memoir about his experience in Vietnam.
Jack Estes’ new novel,
Searching for Gurney, follows the lives of three US Marines and a North Vietnamese soldier during horrific battles in the jungles and rice paddies of Vietnam. The narrative is a set of character studies told in vignettes.
The book delves into the emotional, physical, and psychological effects of the war on the American and Vietnamese young men caught up in the conflict. American soldiers JT, Coop, and Collins, along with North Vietnamese soldier Vuong, fight for their respective countries in a war that is brutal and terrifying.
But what happens after the war? Eventually the Americans go to a home that’s no longer home, while Vuong is assigned to run a labor camp to “reeducate” South Vietnamese soldiers and sympathizers. The war is over, but as Vuong numbly observes, it lives on inside their heads. With gripping clarity, Jack Estes takes the reader into the damaged souls of these young men. The fate of Lt. Gurney haunts every corner of the story as