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Reviewed by Fred Phillips for Readers' Favorite
Other, Lesser Men by G.A. Di Cintio could be classified as an after-war novel. It chronicles the struggle of one soldier returning to his lower middle class neighborhood after his tour of duty in Vietnam. He faces many battles – looking for work, an alcoholic father, a brother gung-ho to follow in his older brother’s footsteps to Vietnam, a false rape charge still hounding him from the past, and a neighborhood that looks down on him (for both his false rape charge and his father’s boozing), and his status as a Vietnam vet. Even the sexy girl with whom he has begun a relationship comes with a host of challenges.
Other, Lesser Men is uncompromising in its honesty. Any of us who were alive during the Vietnam War realize that vets from that conflict got a raw deal. They were disliked by their youthful peers because they went off to war instead of demonstrating against it. They were also disliked by many of their parents’ generation because it was a losing war filled with drugs, rock and roll, and an endless stream of brutal atrocities against the people of Vietnam. G.A. Di Cintio has painted a picture of one decent man attempting to validate his own post-soldier existence in a war that would much rather see him just go away. It blends the character’s introspection with dialogue, and action with personal relationships in a way that provides a little extra understanding of a time which no words can accurately describe. For every veteran who gets a handshake and a thank you today, there was a Vietnam vet who got cursed at and disrespected. This book gives us a brief but powerful glimpse at a different time in America.
