PAPERBACK ISBN: 0-88258-118-X       $24.95

240 pages; 5.5 x 8.5 inches

by George Davis

Coming Home, penned by Air Force and newspaper veteran George Davis, is the tale of three fighter pilots in Vietnam who become best friends and later bitter enemies. Ben is the Harvard-educated black man who goes AWOL to protest and escape from what he considers the insanity of war.  Childress, also black, is a slickster who seduces Ben’s wife.  Stacy Press is a white liberal who comes to hate and distrust all blacks, including Ben and Childress, his former buddies. Each becomes a victim of betrayal, racism, and jealousy as the strains of war, blind ambition, and lust rip at the very seams of their lives.  Mel Watkins, an editor of The New York Times Book Review, contributes a penetrating introduction to this edition of Coming Home, one that places the novel squarely in the context of the times in which it was written. The work also contains an appen­dix of reviews the book received upon first publication.

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