Book review:  I Saw a Man

MANY American novelists have taken on the experence of soldiers in Vietnam or Baghdad and conjured the terrors of war and the continuing war at home when they try to debrief and get back into their own lives.

Robert Stone, who died earlier this year, was one of the most successful at getting under the fingernails and into the veins of soldiers and into their shattered minds as they wipe the dust of battlefields off their feet and walk around their old homes.

There are echoes of that kind of writing in the intelligent and finely written new novel by Owen Sheers.