Terence A. Harkin Two groups who showed very different kinds of courage late in the Vietnam War--active-duty soldiers in the GI anti-war movement and Air Commandos who more Two groups who showed very different kinds of courage late in the Vietnam War--active-duty soldiers in the GI anti-war movement and Air Commandos who flew night after night over the Ho Chi Minh Trail--have been /5. Seduced by drugs, booze, and a masseuse named Tukadah, The Big Buddha Bicycle Race is Brendan Leary’s last gasp of hope. The start of the race is glorious, with entrants from every unit on the base. Except there’s a problem. Tukadah has disappeared, and Leary’s sidekick insists her brother is a . The Big Buddha Bicycle Race. It must have been a hallucination. Sitting in a mountain cave along the winding road that led northwest to Luang Prabang, I could smell the incense floating in the air—pure, not burned to hide some weekend hippie’s marijuana cigarette—a dusky smoke perfume that had burned in Asia for a thousand centuries.
The Big Buddha Bicycle Race is a new take on the Vietnam War. A caper on the surface, it is also a tribute to the complex culture and history of Southeast Asia and a sober remembrance of those groups who have been erased from American history—the brash active-duty soldiers who risked prison by taking part in the GI antiwar movement, the gutsy. Get this from a library! The big Buddha bicycle race. [Terence A Harkin] -- "Brendan Leary, assigned to an Air Force photo squadron an hour from L.A., has got it made, until the U.S. invades Cambodia and he joins his buddies (and a few thousand Southern California co-eds). The Big Buddha Bicycle Race. likes. Reluctant warrior Brendan Leary ends up flying as a cameraman over the Ho Chi Minh Trail in a secret war that turns Laos into a napalm-scorched moonscape.
Terence A. Harkin Two groups who showed very different kinds of courage late in the Vietnam War--active-duty soldiers in the GI anti-war movement and Air Commandos who more Two groups who showed very different kinds of courage late in the Vietnam War--active-duty soldiers in the GI anti-war movement and Air Commandos who flew night after night over the Ho Chi Minh Trail--have been erased. The Big Buddha Bicycle Race transports the reader to upcountry Thailand and war-ravaged Laos late in the Vietnam War. On one level a cross-cultural wartime love story, it is also a surreal remembrance of two groups who have been erased from American history—the brash active-duty soldiers who risked prison by taking part in the GI anti-war movement and the gutsy air commandos who risked death. Terence A. Harkin earned a BA in English-American Literature from Brown University while spending weekends touring New England with bands that opened for The Yardbirds, the Critters and Jimi Hendrix. After serving with the USAF in Southeast Asia during the Vietnam War, he won a CBS Fellowship for his screenwriting while completing an MFA at the.
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