The Useless Servants (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781558850682)

In The Useless Servants, award-winning author Rolando Hinojosa captures the obscenity and pointlessness of war in the pages of a Korean War journal written by his fictional everyman, Rafe Buenrostro. Drawing from his own experiences, Hinojosa probes the mind of this Texas country boy who suddenly finds himself in an unknown country fighting in an undeclared war for an unknown reason. Meeting and befriending an unending stream of people who are gone as suddenly as they appear, Rafe alternately fears for his life and is bored to death. Dehumanized by the horrors that surround him, Rafe latches onto the one thing that offers hope for survival: his diary. He records his observations laconically and without emotion in a routine geared to survival and to becoming more effective in the performance of his grisly duty as an artilleryman.

Author: Rolando Hinojosa
ISBN-10: 1558850686
ISBN-13: 9781558850682
Publisher: Arte Publico Press
Language: English
Published: 01/01/1993
Pages: 192
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 8.75h x 5.70w x 0.77d

Review Citation(s):
Booklist 09/15/1993 pg. 127
Publishers Weekly 07/12/1993