NYQ Books Announces the Release of Soldier in the Grass by Joanna Crispi
New York, NY, February 10, 2010 --(PR.com)-- The Congo is in civil war and Brazzaville is under siege. During a mission to evacuate French nationals, Lt. Vincent Chavanne is separated from his unit and left for dead. Soldier in the Grass records his journey with the woman who saves his life as they escape across the country to the safety of the ocean port, Pointe-Noire. Adversity strips them of their defenses. Cut off from the rest of the world, overwhelmed by violence and fear, they find something that transcends suffering, hatred and superstition—devotion to one another.
William Packard writes of Soldier in the Grass, "What an overwhelmingly heartfelt powerful story this is—heroic episodic Saga which records the dreadful ordeal of realization of two lost and lonely souls who find each other in the blazing heat of Africa as they journey towards their ultimate destination."
And Salvatore Moltisanti writes: "This modern love story unfolds along a river as turbulent as its history, and peaceful as their emotions, in a place of brutality and violence for its past of tribal warfare and its present of ethnic violence and massacres. The link between their love and the human suffering around them is incredibly direct. Joanna Crispi brings a sense of urgency to facts of such heinous proportions as if they were happening in our own backyard. We can smell the surrounding rainforest, the mythical land of beasts and dreadful plagues. The story widens and picks up speed until it enters the Gates of Hell and emerges surrounded by a lush tropical landscape, tranquil and safe until it slows to a dramatic stand-still. A must read!"
Joanna Crispi graduated from Smith College and Harvard Law School. She has practiced law as a criminal defense attorney. Her novel, Roxanne and Alexander, about the wife of Alexander the Great, has been translated into German and Czech. She lives in New York City.
NYQ Books was established in 2009 as an imprint of The New York Quarterly
Foundation, Inc. which has been publishing poetry since 1969.
Contact: Raymond Hammond, Editor; rhammond@nyquarterly.org
208 Pages, 5½ x 8½
ISBN: 978-1-935520-00-9
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William Packard writes of Soldier in the Grass, "What an overwhelmingly heartfelt powerful story this is—heroic episodic Saga which records the dreadful ordeal of realization of two lost and lonely souls who find each other in the blazing heat of Africa as they journey towards their ultimate destination."
And Salvatore Moltisanti writes: "This modern love story unfolds along a river as turbulent as its history, and peaceful as their emotions, in a place of brutality and violence for its past of tribal warfare and its present of ethnic violence and massacres. The link between their love and the human suffering around them is incredibly direct. Joanna Crispi brings a sense of urgency to facts of such heinous proportions as if they were happening in our own backyard. We can smell the surrounding rainforest, the mythical land of beasts and dreadful plagues. The story widens and picks up speed until it enters the Gates of Hell and emerges surrounded by a lush tropical landscape, tranquil and safe until it slows to a dramatic stand-still. A must read!"
Joanna Crispi graduated from Smith College and Harvard Law School. She has practiced law as a criminal defense attorney. Her novel, Roxanne and Alexander, about the wife of Alexander the Great, has been translated into German and Czech. She lives in New York City.
NYQ Books was established in 2009 as an imprint of The New York Quarterly
Foundation, Inc. which has been publishing poetry since 1969.
Contact: Raymond Hammond, Editor; rhammond@nyquarterly.org
208 Pages, 5½ x 8½
ISBN: 978-1-935520-00-9
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