Dispatches by Michael Herr, Softcover Book
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Title: Dispatches by Michael Herr, Softcover Book.
Author: Michael Herr.
Type: Fiction.
Edition: 11th Printing 1981.
Publisher: Picador.
Year Published: 1968.
Format: Softcover Book.
Printed By: Richard Clay Ltd.
Page Count: 207.
Size: Width:13cm
Height:19.5cm
Thickness:1.5cm
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Dispatches is a New Journalism book by Michael Herr that describes the author's experiences in Vietnam as a war correspondent for Esquire magazine. First published in 1977, Dispatches was one of the first pieces of American literature that portrayed the experiences of soldiers in the Vietnam War for American readers.
Featured in the book are fellow war correspondents Sean Flynn, Dana Stone, and Dale Dye, and photojournalist Tim Page.
Dispatches was reprinted in 2009 by Everyman's Library as a contemporary classic.
John le Carré described Dispatches as "the best book I have ever read on men and war in our time" and it featured in the journalism section of The Guardian's 100 greatest non-fiction book list in 2011.
However after publishing Dispatches, Herr disclosed that parts of the book were invented, and that it would be better for it not to be regarded as journalism. In a 1990 interview with Los Angeles Times, he admitted that the characters Day Tripper and Mayhew in the book are "totally fictional characters", and went on to say:
"A lot of Dispatches is fictional. I've said this a lot of times. I have told people over the years that there are fictional aspects to Dispatches, and they look betrayed. They look heartbroken, as if it isn't true anymore. I never thought of Dispatches as journalism. In France they published it as a novel.... I always carried a notebook. I had this ideaI remember endlessly writing down dialogues. It was all I was really there to do. Very few lines were literally invented. A lot of lines are put into mouths of composite characters. Sometimes I tell a story as if I was present when I wasn't, (which wasn't difficult)I was so immersed in that talk, so full of it and so steeped in it. A lot of the journalistic stuff I got wrong."
Similarly, in a separate interview with Eric James Schroeder, he said:
"I dont think it's any secret that there is talk in the book that's invented. But it's invented out of that voice that I heard so often and that made such penetration into my head.... I dont really want to go into that no-mans-land about what really happened and what didnt happen and where you draw the line. Everything in Dispatches happened for me, even if it didnt necessarily happen to me."
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