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Veteran Vietnam correspondent FitzGerald and well-traveled photojournalist Mary Cross explored Vietnam together in the spring of 2000, each using their craft to document the experience. "What struck me, after my long absence," writes FitzGerald, "was not so much how the country had changed but the extent to which it had returned to itself." Accordingly, for a readership that likely has seen only wartime images of Vietnam, she revisits a great deal of the country's history as she explores geography, society, and religion in a half-dozen essays. These informative, stimulating passages draw a picture, and Cross' photos snap it into color, as she eschews landscape and architecture to focus on Vietnam's people and their way of life. The National Geographic-style compositions bring us fairly close to her subjects but have a reserve or formality that slows their pulse. Still, though there is no formal connection between the text and images, they work well together, providing a unique portrait of this complex land, one that is "going back to tradition and forward at the same time." Keir Graff
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Book Description
Vietnam is the fruit of an unusual collaboration between noted author Frances FitzGerald (Fire in the Lake, 1972) and photojournalist Mary Cross. FitzGerald and Cross, both intimately acquainted with Vietnam, traveled there together in order to create this vivid and insightful look at Vietnam today.

About the Author
Frances FitzGerald is author of the award-winning bestseller, Fire in the Lake as well as America Revised, Cities on a Hill, and Way Out There in the Blue. Mary Cross, photojournalist and portrait photographer, is the author of Behind the Great Wall and Morocco.

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