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Pulitzer Prize winner and New York Times bestselling author Michael Shaara’s first novel, The Broken Place, is the triumphant story of Tom McClain—Korean War hero, wounded veteran, professional boxer, college student, and sufferer from post-traumatic stress disorder. Upon McClain's return to the U.S., he heads to his college campus in Vermont, to try to pick up the pieces of the life he'd left behind before he went into the army. But while he's glad to reunite with his old friend, fellow med-student, drinking companion and raconteur Charlie Ravenal, he's not sure he wants to stay in school. He's restless, and not even a date with blonde, petite Lise Hoffman—the prettiest girl on the campus who is infatuated with him—can shake him out of his funk. A trip to the Holy Land with his army buddy Tony Wilson ends in disaster in Afghanistan. McClain comes to the realization that he's a fighter...it's all he knows how to do. So he decides to do the only thing he's comfortable with, and climbs back into the ring. It's there that McClain at last feels at home. And his boxing career is on the rise—until the night he kills a man in the ring, a man he didn't know, a man he had no beef with. McClain will fight no more, but it will take the love of a good woman and his best friend to save him...from himself.
With a brand new introduction by the author's son, New York Times bestselling author Jeff Shaara.
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I think I had too high of an expectation for this book. The writing was too flowery too often. The beginning was difficult to follow and was just not what I expected.
The portion on war is good. The rest is dated and bad.
When former prize fighter Tom McClain comes home from the Korean War in 1953, he carries the scars of the physical wounds that almost killed him and a Silver Star for what he did. In a novel as well written as his better-known "The Killer Angels," author Michael Shaara follows McClain's attempts to integrate himself back into the civilian world.
McClain returns to college, but he knows he will be moving on, for something within him is broken, there's an anger there growing out of old family issues and the war. He drinks a lot, considers returning to prize fighting, the only thing he felt he was good at, was made for, other than soldiering. He meets Lise, there's a strange and wonderful chemistry there, and he doesn't understand it--she's drawn to him from a world he doesn't know.
During the summer of 1954, he meets up with Wilson, an old army buddy, and they travel through Asia, a hard trip with good and bad in it, but the broken place remains. McClain returns home, lives in a mountain cabin and returns to prize fighting. He wins fights, he's good at it, feels whole and natural while he's in the ring, but wonders whether it will help him make peace with himself and whatever created his broken places.
In his posthumously published 1991 novel "For Love of the Game," Shaara lives in perfect harmony inside the head of a pitcher, capturing the thoughts, feelings and motions of a man standing on the mound in a game he loves. With a similar skill, but greater power, he steps into McClain's consciousness in "The Broken Place." A former boxer himself, Shaara becomes the main character, heart and soul, in some of the best and most honest boxing scenes ever written.
While Shaara will always be remembered for "The Killer Angels," "The Broken Place" is, in some ways, a more powerful book. In spare dialogue, magical description, and intense interior monologue, Shaara has created a dangerously beautiful and personal novel.
Several years before the novel was published, those of us enrolled in Shaara's creative writing class at Florida State University were privileged to see excerpts of "The Broken Place" in manuscript form. The story made an indelible impression then that continues to be an inspiration. Let's hope the book doesn't remain out of print.
I bought this book for my husband, who loves Michael Shaara and his father Jeff--has read all of their books. Glad we found this one.
This an awesome novel by a writer who failed to achieve the success that he should have. The characters are superbly developed and the narrative is taut. I recall very few books that have moved me as much as this one.
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