The Boston Globe, September 15th, 1996
This is a true story. It is the chronicle of one man's rendezvous with death. A novelist might begin the story on Jan. 3, 1949, the day Marty Smith was born in Santa Fe, son of a grocer. The author might devote a few chapters to Marty's boyhood and to his graduation from high school, and especially to 1967, that last summer of innocence. The Vietnam War was heating up and to avoid the draft, Marty enrolled at New Mexico Highlands University. Alas, however, he was more attentive to girls than to grades and he flunked out. One chapter would recount the nine months Marty spent as a fugitive from ...
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