Nebuchadnezzar

Nebuchadnezzar plays out how the dramatic turmoil of social, sexual, and ideological change of the 1960s actually happened… It’s all here, sex, drugs, rock-and-roll, incest, free love, hawk vs. dove, civil rights, all the stuff of the era, and some oft-forgotten truths… This quietly ambitious novel is in the tradition of books like The Mill on the Floss (George Eliot) in which the very casualness of the drama, considerable conflict seething in the casualness, expresses how real lives get lived. This was (and is) very much the meaning of the confusion of Vietnam. And the sexuality is disturbing… I mean this not in prudishness but in praise. The central irony of the modern psychology is in the loneliness that wells up into painful evidence at the moments of intimacy… Contemporary readers will like this book for its insightful and passionate view… The novel is masterful and assured. - American poet William Kit Hathaway These are my people! - Vietnam veteran and National Book Award-winner, Larry Heinemann (Paco’s Story) Nebuchadnezzar is an often-unsettling novel about children of entitlement who find themselves plunged into the maelstrom of Vietnam and the 60s… Suspenseful, intricately plotted, and panoramic in its evocation of period… Nebuchadnezzar puts me in mind of Hardy’s Return of the Native … Imbued by the author’s cinematic attention to texture, fabric, fashion and pop music… This novel might be easily realized as a movie…. Nebuchadnezzar is one novel to be read with pleasure - Author, scholar, and editor or the original manuscript, Alan Weinblatt, PhD