WATER IN DARKNESS - Softcover

. . . [F]ans of smart, macho prose will find much to like in this debut novel. -- Publishers Weekly

Daniel Buckman has managed...to convey the sense of futility and hopelessness...with remarkable finesse in his first published novel, Water in Darkness. -- New York Press

Just when you think it is safe to forget about the Vietnam War, something forces it back into consciousness . . . Perhaps it is a book like Water in Darkness. -- Los Angeles Times

Water in Darkness is a wonderful novel, with an interesting view of the world. -- Bookbrowser website

Heir to the impressionistic tradition of Ernest Hemingway and Cormac McCarthy, Daniel Buckman uses psychological landscapes and terse dialogue to tell his story of the Vietnam War's living legacy—the generation born during the Summer of Love who never knew their country disassociated from My Lai or Martin Luther King's assassination. Buckman's America is a wasteland of absurd cities and drought-stricken cornfields where the moral high-ground afforded it after VE Day lingers like an ironic mirage, a place where there can be no illusions of innocence, only reminders that innocence is itself illusory.