- Gebundene Ausgabe
- Verlag: Ulverscroft Large Print Bks.; Auflage: Large print e. (1. Juni 2003)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0708948448
- ISBN-13: 978-0708948446
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In a classic army snafu, Corporal Rudy Spruance is off-loaded from an airplane at a military installation in an unknown, very remote place. Awakening in a hospital bed after being bitten by a monstrous cloud of mosquitoes near the runway, he learns that he is in Greenland, at a secret hospital housing the most maimed and disfigured wounded of the Korean War. It's 1959, and only about "66 and two thirds" such victims remain. As Rudy finds his way, he learns that the limbless and faceless victims were reported missing in action. As they die in Greenland, next of kin are notified that their remains have been recovered in Korea. Rooted in truth, this is a terrific--possibly great--first novel. The sense of place is vivid, especially the Stark Raving Dark, the long winter that causes everyone to lose all sense of time, brawl senselessly, and burst into crying jags. The hospital wing that houses the victims is surreal but, oddly, as comforting as it is horrific. Primary characters, particularly the charismatic and enigmatic CO and the diffident Spruance, are fully formed. And the military mentality and attendant bureaucracy that influence everything but the environment offer a narrative glue for a quirky, affecting, and powerful read. Thomas Gaughan
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A debut novel set in 1959 which has been compared to }Catch 22{ and }M*A*S*H{. Corporal Rudy Spruce finds himself in a remote military hospital in Greenland after enlisting in the US army.
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Es ist 1959. Rudy Spruance, ein verwundeter Soldat, erwacht in einem entlegenen obskuren Hospital Grönlands. Inmitten dieser bizarren Welt von gesichtslosen und entstellten Opfern des Koreakriegs lernt er, die merkwürdigen Genesungsversuche der Soldaten kennen und deren schwer zu ertragendes Schicksal in einem böswilligen geheimen System zu begreifen.
John Griesemer hat ein großartiges Buch geschrieben, das trotz seines bewegenden, ja beklemmenden Themas mit unwiderstehlichem Charme auftritt, während sich seine Charaktere gleichsam liebenswert und bizarr entfalten. Mit wundervoller Einfachheit und herrlichen Charakteren, hinter denen sich ein besonders absurder Moment des Kalten Krieges verbirgt, hat John Griesemer einen Roman geschrieben, den man nicht vergißt, ständig wieder aufschlagen könnte.
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Been there, seen that
27. April 2005
Format:Taschenbuch
I was in Narsarsuaq in 2001 on a hunting trip. I was curious about the old US military airfield where we landed because my father in law had landed there as a crewmember in a B-17 on the way to England during WWII. The remains of the old US military buildings can still be seen. While on my trip, however, I heard from local people about the US military hospital located in Narsarsuaq for Korean War wounded. I was surprised to say the least. Then I later discovered Mr. Griesemer's excellent book. It not only accurately describes Greenland but it also accurately describes many of the aspects of army life (been there, done that, too). I would recommend this book highly as a good read!
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Great story but it is fiction
5. September 2003
Format:Taschenbuch
I am writing a book about the sinking of the Army Troopship Dorchester by a U-Boat on February 3, 1943, just south of Greenland. The Dorchester was headed for the Army Command base at Narsarsuaq, called BW 1, in southwestern Greenland, and the 227 survivors were taken to the 188th Station Hospital at the base. This is the hospital referred to by the name Qangattarsa in Mr. Griesmener's excellent novel. Mr. Griesemer told me that the novel grew out of a single paragraph he had read in a 1990 book by another author. I obtained the other book, contacted the author, and learned that the paragraph in question in that book, which describes his adventures through the North, was based on a story he heard some years during a conversation with "two drunken Danes."
The hospital at Narsarsuaq was closed after the war, but its buildings survived, and the hospital was reactivated in the early 1950s, as the Cold War heated up and small U.S. garrisons protected the Radar stations in the north, the DEW Line, and the airfield at Narsarsuaq, through which planes continued to fly between the U.S and Europe. More than 10,000 planes had passed through during WW II, when the hospital had grown to 200 beds of its authorized 250. The U.S involvement in Greenland in the 1950s was much smaller and only 5 - 10 doctors, nurses, dentists and others staffed the hospital until it closed in the late 1950s.
I have done extensive research in the National Archives. I have had conversations with men and women who were stationed at the base in the 1950s, and most importantly with professional men and women who worked at the hospital. Uniformly, they have been surprised when they hear how their operation is being described.
I have not found any objective evidence of the existence of the situation described in Griesemer's novel. His wonderful imagination supplied details that filled out the basic story.
The Chief Military Archivist at the National Archives has been asked about the story several times over the years and has found nothing in the record, classified or not,to even suggest it may be true. In truth, badly burned or wounded men from Korea were treated at the Army's FitzSimons Rehabiliation Hospital in Denver. Historical fiction is fun and Griesemer is a fine novelist. His novel stimulates thinking about what might have happened, but it should not be confused with history.
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but am i disappointed?
30. August 2004
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I read this book after falling in love with the the author's later novel "Signal & Noise". I had enjoyed the epic sweep of the writer's narrative and themes. I guess I am a sucker for those novels that meld tales of scientific discovery and endeavour with the highly charged emotional lives of fictional characters...and particularly the excitement where the two threads collide and crackle in recognition of each other.
This book is very different from "Signal & Noise". I had expected "olde worlde" and I got "other worldly", feeling as though I was reading about some kind of freak show, which I sense is the intention. Tales of the drunken and depressive debauchery of the US military under the maddening influence of the neverending Greenland night and the northern lights were a little too unsettling for me.
However, I have given the book four stars as it is largely beautifully written and has a terrific pace. A short, snappy read that keeps you asking questions about what will happen next, but which is a bit short on comfort factor.
I particularly liked the character detail in the main figure, Rudy, who has been in trouble with the law for breaking into people's homes but never stolen a thing. Descriptions of him sitting in alien living rooms just to absorb the secure family atmosphere he never had border on the heartbreaking.
I am actually writing this review as the world needs more and more of John Griesemer. In answer to the question "but am I disappointed?" the answer has to be "just a little". But that lies in the weight of my expectation.
"Signal and Noise" and "No One Thinks of Greenland" are poles apart but both enriching in their own unigue way.
A fabulous writer. Next!
This book is very different from "Signal & Noise". I had expected "olde worlde" and I got "other worldly", feeling as though I was reading about some kind of freak show, which I sense is the intention. Tales of the drunken and depressive debauchery of the US military under the maddening influence of the neverending Greenland night and the northern lights were a little too unsettling for me.
However, I have given the book four stars as it is largely beautifully written and has a terrific pace. A short, snappy read that keeps you asking questions about what will happen next, but which is a bit short on comfort factor.
I particularly liked the character detail in the main figure, Rudy, who has been in trouble with the law for breaking into people's homes but never stolen a thing. Descriptions of him sitting in alien living rooms just to absorb the secure family atmosphere he never had border on the heartbreaking.
I am actually writing this review as the world needs more and more of John Griesemer. In answer to the question "but am I disappointed?" the answer has to be "just a little". But that lies in the weight of my expectation.
"Signal and Noise" and "No One Thinks of Greenland" are poles apart but both enriching in their own unigue way.
A fabulous writer. Next!
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