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American Dreams, 1983: Meditations in Green by Stephen Wright

You’ve probably never heard of Stephen Wright’s 1983 novel Meditations in Green, but you should know it now. It’s one of the strangest and most evocative books about the Vietnam War. Nathaniel Rich goes into the jungle.

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