Scar Vegas: And Other Stories
by Tom Paine
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With explosive narrative skill, Tom Paine pulls you into the worlds of a cross-dressing army general, a confused down-and-out being offered an incredible opportunity, a despairing man whose mother hates him for no apparent reason, a teenage anarchist, a West Indian mayor or a Romanian TV journalist. Paine's stories feature exotic locales, and take you on adventures you never imagined. Like Ernest Hemmingway, Robert Stone, Richard Ford and Russell Banks, Tom Paine grips the reader with show more passion and vision. show lessTags
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Right off the bat I have to tell you "General Markman's Last Stand" is a devastating story, devastating but (and this is a big but), not without hope. General Markman is about to retire from his Marine Corps command only on his final day he makes a career-ending move. As a man haunted by debilitating Vietnam War flashbacks he has to chose between his secrets and his future.
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Tom Paine is a graduate of Princeton and the Columbia MFA program
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