Fragments

*Fragments* is a story about how war can make everything explosive-even love-and how two friends try to put the pieces of their lives together again. "[*Fragments*] makes the usual semi-autobiographical account [of the Vietnam War] . . . seem flimsy and discursive in comparison. . . . The shapeliness and sense of larger design [is] so elegantly executed in *Fragments*."-Michiko Kakutani, *New York Times* "The plot is believable, the characters sharply drawn, the prose clean and distinctive. . . . Stand[s] with Tim O'Brien's *Going After Cacciato,* James Webb's *Fields of Fire,* Josiah Bunting's *The Lionheads* and John Del Vecchio's *The 13th Valley*. . . . A strong, compelling novel."-Marc Leepson, *Washington Post* "There have been many books on Vietnam, and there will be many others. This is more a novel than the rest. . . . Fuller has reassembled the exploded grenade."-Bob MacDonald, *Boston Sunday Globe* "Should our children ask about Vietnam, we would not go wrong to place this book in their hands. . . . [*Fragments*] purveys more than information-it gives the war a literary form."-David Myers, *New York Times* "The best novel yet about the Vietnam War. . . . It ranks with Norman Mailer's *The Naked and the Dead* and James Jones's *From Here to Eternity.*"-Daniel Kornstein, *Wall Street Journal*