Dress Whites - Phillips, John
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A powerful collection of short stories that shines a light on a tumultuous time in America's history that forever changed our nation. A freshly made Marine Corps officer, with his new bride in tow, visits his family one last time before shipping out to Vietnam. A group of lost souls living in a seedy Las Vegas hot-sheet motel find solace in each other, only to be devastated when one of them is unable to escape his demons. A teenager tries to convince his mother that his Amerasian girlfriend is worthy of the American Dream. A boxer returns from the war and takes a desperate fight to try to make…mehr

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A powerful collection of short stories that shines a light on a tumultuous time in America's history that forever changed our nation. A freshly made Marine Corps officer, with his new bride in tow, visits his family one last time before shipping out to Vietnam. A group of lost souls living in a seedy Las Vegas hot-sheet motel find solace in each other, only to be devastated when one of them is unable to escape his demons. A teenager tries to convince his mother that his Amerasian girlfriend is worthy of the American Dream. A boxer returns from the war and takes a desperate fight to try to make a name for himself and enough money to look for his daughter. A brother left behind seeks his own random, brutal revenge. They are some of the characters of Dress Whites, a debut short-story collection by John Phillips, whose powerful fiction has been described as both "muscular" and "sensitive." They are the stories of people who have been left behind in the years during and after the Vietnam War. Whether they served or remained at home, they are haunted years later by the far-off war that many of them still struggle to recover from today.
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John Phillips has led many lives: among them bartender, beauty products salesman, union representative, sportswriter. Running a bar was the best and worst of times. (Think sending a guy back to jail for burglary and having to pay off cops to ensure they'd be there when needed.) Of course, there were barroom dramas-good, bad, and just weird. All of it while trying to look the other way as Staten Island gave up guys to die in Vietnam and dancing as fast as he could to not be one of them.As a sportswriter, Phillips covered more than 60 world title fights and their scenes, filled with a wonderland of characters-many tough, decent, and funny, others cold-eyed predators, always, always on the hustle. Among other events he covered were the Olympics, World Series, Super Bowl, figure skating, tennis, and horse racing. He also reported from Cuba, where he spent three days in a hospital because he was dumb enough to drink unfiltered water at the airport.