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Post-World Battle II America and teenage boys dreamed of adventure growing up in the 1950s, paid attention to Elvis Presley and read Jack Kerouac, yet it wasn't cruising Path 66 in a Corvette that united them, but Highway 1, known as the road Without Joy, on the way to Hue city during the 1968 Tet Offensive in Vietnam. It had been the dawning of age Aquarius, Civil Rights and the pill, girls in long boots and brief skirts, but not for those in the jungle and rice paddies of Southeast Asia. Full of innocence and dreams, adolescent passion and coming of age horror, River of Perfumes catches the contradictions of the days and the actual brutality of war does to young men in battle, and a country that remained home and deserted them.
