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'Introducing the story of seven minutes under dirty glass. Pace, rhythm and image seduce the confidence of witness and criminalise the punishment. It is an awful kind of alphabet : a bible of unthinkable dreams - the perfidious bitch-slap at the Johnny Panic in us all ...' (Publisher's blurb)
'The Yellow Sarong' is created from various sections of Loaded Hearts, re-written as a short story. Trying to rebuild his life in London in 1973 after the Vietnam War, Tommo relives his relationship with a Vietnamese woman, Kim, his happy furloughs in her village and the ending of their affair after the village is raided by Viet Cong.