Here is a story about two Vietnam veterans, Llewellen and Cookie, whose lives intersect a second time in Baltimore, Maryland. Together, they embark on a spiritual journey that helps them to confront their war-time pasts and to claim a future with the women they love.
"The author models his book on Japanese haibun - it's a slim volume in a prose style full
of figurative language and interspersed with haiku. This touching book [Syllables of Rain]
has some lovely phrases and a satisfactory resolution." - Publishers Weekly
"Lliteras has created a compact, emotionally charged snapshot of two soldiers trying to make
sense of the world around them. Combining prose and poetry, this slim novel will leave a
lasting impression on anyone who is or has known a military veteran." - Library Journal
"Syllables of Rain is a brilliant work of pure genius . . . Distilled from the water
of a career of writing books like nobody else can write, D.S. Lliteras has brought
his unique genius to bear on the world of the Vietnam veteran." - The VVA Veteran
"D.S. Lliteras' approach in this brave new novel is both very Miles (as in Davis)
and also very Kerouac (as in the Beat Generation novel, The Dharma Bums).
Syllables of Rain is a book that delivers what is most artful and true in Lliteras' writing."
- The MacWire (TMW) - Worthy Entertainment & Celebrity News
D. S. Lliteras is the author of thirteen books that have received national and international acclaim. His short stories and poetry have appeared in numerous national and international magazines, journals, and anthologies. His previous novel, Viet Man, won the Gold Medal for Literary Fiction by the Military Writers Society of America.
Genre: Literary Fiction
"The author models his book on Japanese haibun - it's a slim volume in a prose style full
of figurative language and interspersed with haiku. This touching book [Syllables of Rain]
has some lovely phrases and a satisfactory resolution." - Publishers Weekly
"Lliteras has created a compact, emotionally charged snapshot of two soldiers trying to make
sense of the world around them. Combining prose and poetry, this slim novel will leave a
lasting impression on anyone who is or has known a military veteran." - Library Journal
"Syllables of Rain is a brilliant work of pure genius . . . Distilled from the water
of a career of writing books like nobody else can write, D.S. Lliteras has brought
his unique genius to bear on the world of the Vietnam veteran." - The VVA Veteran
"D.S. Lliteras' approach in this brave new novel is both very Miles (as in Davis)
and also very Kerouac (as in the Beat Generation novel, The Dharma Bums).
Syllables of Rain is a book that delivers what is most artful and true in Lliteras' writing."
- The MacWire (TMW) - Worthy Entertainment & Celebrity News
D. S. Lliteras is the author of thirteen books that have received national and international acclaim. His short stories and poetry have appeared in numerous national and international magazines, journals, and anthologies. His previous novel, Viet Man, won the Gold Medal for Literary Fiction by the Military Writers Society of America.
Genre: Literary Fiction
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