Matterhorn: A Novel of the Vietnam War Audiobook

Quotes

• “Narrator Bronson Pinchot should get a medal for his extraordinary portrayal of Lieutenant Waino Mellas…Pinchot breathes life into each member of Mellas’ Bravo Company…Winner of the AudioFile Earphones Award.”

  — AudioFile

• “Carefully constructed and beautifully realized…Filled with truth, wisdom, love, and a rich vein of dark gallows humor.”

  — Newsweek

• “A raw, brilliant account of war that may well serve as a final exorcism for one of the most painful passages in American history.”

  — New York Times

• “A brutally vivid debut novel…The visceral Matterhorn is as much a tribute to the marine culture of bravery as it is a dissection of a contentious war and a meditation on the American civil rights movement…Marlantes’ writing is evocative. We feel the marines’ exhaustion as they dig gun pits, carry dead and wounded comrades, and nearly die from hunger…[Marlantes] pitches us into a harrowing narrative we won’t soon forget.”

  — USA Today

• “One of the most powerful and moving novels about combat, the Vietnam War, and war in general, that I have ever read.”

  — Dan Rather, award-winning television news anchor

• “There’s a reason this big Vietnam War novel made such an impression on the public consciousness. It is a deep and devastating achievement.”

  — George Pelecanos, New York Times bestselling author

• “There has never been a more realistic portrait or eloquent tribute to the nobility of men under fire and never a more damning portrait of a war that ground them cruelly underfoot for no good reason.”

  — Mark Bowden, New York Times bestselling author

• “Marlantes doesn’t introduce you to Vietnam in his brilliant war epic—he unceremoniously drops you into the jungle, disoriented and dripping with leeches, with only the newbie lieutenant as your guide…Readers gain a new perspective on the ravages of war, the politics and bureaucracy of the military, and the peculiar beauty of brotherhood.”

  — Amazon.com

• “The Vietnam novel has come of age, and this is a worthy addition to the genre…An engrossing chronicle of men at war.”

  — Booklist

• “Even as the Vietnam War recedes into the past, the despair, confusion, and mythology it generated retains a grip on our culture. Debut novelist Marlantes offers a realistic, in-the-trenches look at that war…A valuable addition to any permanent collection.”

  — Library Journal

• “Marlantes writes with a spare clarity, but he’s unafraid to plumb the emotions of the young men in Bravo Company…More than any living American novelist I’ve read, Marlantes made me feel what I already must have known: that war is worse than hell. There it is.”

  — Michael Schaub, NPR book reviewer

• “Marlantes’ epic debut is a dense, vivid narrative…A decorated Vietnam veteran, the author clearly understands his playing field, and by examining both the internal and external struggles of the battalion, he brings a long, torturous war back to life with realistic characters and authentic, thrilling combat sequences…a grand accomplishment.”

  — Publishers Weekly (starred review)

• “What makes this novel so irresistible is Marlantes’ skill at peeling away the many layers of truth in combat…Marlantes’ depiction of men under stress—no matter what race or background—is searing and complex. Matterhorn will not only take its place on the top shelf of war fiction, it’s going to knock a few books off. It’s that good.”

  — BookPage