Home Before Morning (Masterplots II: Juvenile and Young Adult Biography Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Christopher Morgan, Lynda Van Devanter
- First Published: 1983
- Time of Work: 1968–1972
- Setting: Washington, D.C.; El Paso, Texas; San Francisco and Los Angeles, California; and Pleiku Province, Hanoi, Saigon, and Camh Ranh Bay, Vietnam
- Principal Characters: Lynda Van Devanter, Barbara Kaplan, Michelle Newman, Coretta Jones, Captain Bubba L. Kominski, Carl Adams, Jack Olsen, Mary Van Devanter, Bill Blackton
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
- Subjects: 1960’s, 1970’s, Autobiography, Doctors, Vietnam War, War, Military life or service, Armed forces, Nursing or nurses, Hospitals, Southeast Asia
- Locales: Los Angeles, CA, Washington, D.C., San Francisco, CA, El Paso, TX, Vietnam
Form and Content
Lynda Van Devanter’s Home Before Morning: The True Story of an Army Nurse in Vietnam is a narrative account of both her yearlong Army tour of duty in Vietnam and her experiences after the war. As she states in the foreword, she began the book in 1979 as a form of therapy in an attempt “somehow to exorcise the Vietnam war” from her mind. The book briefly documents her three years in nursing school and then turns to her enlistment in the Army and her tour at the 71st Evacuation Hospital in Pleiku Province, near the Cambodian border. The book is...
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