Garden of Eden: Vietnam 1955 -1975: A Novel
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Just out of high school, Bubba was drifting from one scrape with the law after another.
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Just out of high school, Bubba was drifting from one scrape with the law after another. Red was too poor for college and too little for a football scholarship. John was in love with Samantha, but 86 proof was proving to be a third wheel. At the suggestion of a friend, the trio joins the Marines to pull their acts together.
Meanwhile, 9,000 miles away, an enemy waits in the jungles of Vietnam.
The 1960s were a decade of rebellion, fantastic music, drugs, and free sex. The pill had unburdened the ladies from the age-old bugaboo of getting pregnant. Good girls were giving the stuff away like it was going out of style. Marijuana was on every street corner. Bob Dylan became the voice of the Hippie Generation. Janis Joplin lived and sang Piece of My Heart.
Out of this menagerie, the three young hell-raisers from South Knoxville, Tennessee have a rendezvous with destiny. Follow the lives of Red, John, and Bubba as they navigate love, war, and history. Will they come home to the embrace of loved ones or in a flag-draped metal coffin?
“Larry Henry is an ex-Marine known for telling it like it is or was. . . . Interesting reading about Knoxville, Vietnam, and American politics.”
Dean Stone, Editor, Maryville Daily Times.
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Pete F. Shelton –
What a wonderful read this was! I don’t usually finish a book at one reading, but I just couldn’t put it down. I’ve know Larry since we were in high school at Young High and we ran together some and no he was not embellishing at all. But, I never knew of his creativity and his amazing way of telling a story that just completely mesmerizes the reader.
In a lot of ways, my youth was like ‘John Henry Jackson’s’ and The Southern Circle was my home away from home. I was never in the military, however, but the descriptions made ne feel like I was right there … Shudder!.
The final chapter, ‘The School Yard,’ brought me to tears. I recommend Garden of Eden to all who want a book that will both entertain, tell an important story and touch the heart.
Patricia H. Bell –
This book was written about the turbulent times of the Vietnam era in which I grew up. It was a very painful time for so many. Several of my friends went to Nam and a couple didn’t make it back home. I also grew up in South Knoxville not far from the author, and am well aquainted with Southern Circle Drive-In, the Texaco Station across from Young High School and certainly with the antics that went on at UT. Larry wrote a moving account, I think,about his life and about the war.
(This is from the Catholic High Babe Larry always wanted to date.)