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(More customer reviews)Greenfield Jones has presented a well-paced and thoughtful novel about the US Air Force in the 1950s. His characters are many and colorful, drawn with a wry wit and verisimilitude that appeals on many levels and for many readers, not least of who are military veterans and Cold War survivors. Jones manages to define a variety of military types who find themselves thrown together in the early period of the Cold War. Better than MASH in its scope, character development, and thoughtful humor, Reve Americain brings the reader through several plot twists and character turns that are thoroughly enjoyable. I like especially the clashes of character in the battle of the sexes during the "Silent Decade." A great gateway to the trilogy of novels to follow. Highly recommended.
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At a US Air Force base in France in the mid-1950s a team of young officers turn a mannequin into a sort of fornicating machine.It is stolen and an Airman is to be put on trial for rape. Meanwhile a chess game is being played by one of the lieutenants and a University of Maryland professor, a game that parallels the plot -- thus there is a Story-Within-the-Story.Another officer is the Double of of one of the fabricators, so that element is also present, as are Time Elision and Corruption of Reality by Dream. Interspersed are poems and essays, in emulation of the method of Hermann Broch in The Sleepwalkers.
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