War Games

This is a wise, dryly humorous, and perfectly conceived novel about a man during the years of the Vietnam War.The protagonist leaves college to enlist in the army and is sent to Southeast Asia. He is a man curiously beset by small cares. He worries about his teeth. Venereal disease may cost him his combat tour, so he endures it in silence. His stoicism rewarded, he is like a passive observer in th...