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Perry Deane Young
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April 6, 2010 will mark the 40th anniversary of the capture of Vietnam War photojournalists Sean Flynn (son of Errol Flynn) and Dana Stone. We are proud to help keep their memories alive.
High Praise for Two of the Missing:
Remembering Sean Flynn and Dana Stone
“Two of the Missing is one of the great books about photographers in war. Author Perry Deane Young reminds me of Stingo in Sophie's Choice, paying witness to the doomed pair of Sean Flynn and Dana Stone as they pursue their photocraft unto death. In a real, but cinematic last moment, Flynn and Stone ride away on their motorcycles toward another grand combat adventure in Cambodia. It is the road leading up to that scene that makes this such a brilliant tale. ” — David Hume Kennerly, Pulitzer Prize Winning Photographer
“What great news that Two of the Missing is finally back in print. Perry Deane Young's account of the life and times and disappearance of Sean Flynn and Dana Stone is definitive. The flamboyant Flynn and rock-solid Stone were the best of a breed of fearless young war correspondents — the friends of our youth — and we miss them still.” — Joseph L. Galloway, War correspondent 1965-2006, co-author of We Were Soldiers Once...and Young, and We Are Soldiers Still
Praise for the original 1975 edition
“Perry Deane Young is a fine young writer, a most welcome newcomer, and his documentary-narrative Two of the Missing is a moving and engrossing chronicle of several fascinating young men drifting toward mysterious and desperate destinations.” — Truman Capote, author of In Cold Blood
“Magnificent…Unforgettable…One of the best books yet prompted by the Vietnam War.” — The Washington Post
“Two of the Missing is a tender book about war, about friendship and love, with more plain virility to it than all the gory epics put together — because it is unmistakably real. No earlier American war could have produced such a book, and no other book on the Vietnam disaster brought it as close….” — Newsday
“The impact of this book was such that I wanted to open a bottle of champagne to toast a work of art because Two of the Missing is more that than the story of a group of young journalists having the thrill of their young lives. Young’s writing weaves a tapestry of reality that should be viewed by all who were there. It is a brilliant, sad, and sometimes funny portrayal of this country’s most tumultuous era.” — Army Times
“With astonishing art, Perry Deane Young has woven war reporting, a memoir of half a dozen friends, and a cheerfully frank self-portrait into the form of a novel which is all fact. Within the scene of Vietnam, he has made his untypical, weird, heroic characters seem to enact the drama of their entire generation. This is an extraordinary book, I cannot recommend it too highly.” — Christopher Isherwood
“Two of the Missing is such a beautiful, poetic, and important book that I wish everybody who loves good books would read it. It is not just about two men who were lost in a disastrous war. It is about all those who took part in that war, including those who, like Perry Deane Young, came back. More than that, it is about that whole generation who grew up in the sixties. And about those of us whose war was decades ago. Hell, it is about everybody anywhere ever, which, of course, all true literature is.” — Merle Miller
“In the 1960s, Vietnam drew a group of young people, photographers and journalists who are only now starting to write books about it. Young is one of these, and his memoir may well be a hard act to follow…His portraits of himself and his friends hold the key to a generation.” — Publisher’s Weekly
“A devastating personal statement about the condition of our own hearts and minds and everything we lost in the war.” — The Kirkus Reviews
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This new Press 53 Classics edition includes eighteen pages of black & white photos taken by Sean Flynn, Dana Stone, Tim Page, Nik Wheeler, and others, plus a new chapter, titled "Whatever Happened..."
About Perry Deane Young
In January, 1968, Perry Deane Young went to Vietnam on assignment for UPI. He arrived in Saigon the night the Tet Offensive began. In 1970, he left Vietnam to work for the New York Post in New York and in Beirut and Cairo. Since 1970, Young has published articles in numerous national magazines and newspapers, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, Newsday, Harper’s, Ms., Rolling Stone, Penthouse, Cosmopolitan, The Advocate, Washingtonian, Saturday Review, The Chicago Journalism Review, and The Quill. A columnist for the Chapel Hill Herald and the Asheville Citizen-Times from 1996-2003, his articles now appear in The Independent and can be found in the archives. He is the author of nine nonfiction books, two plays, and one screenplay.
In 2005, Perry Deane Young presented all of his personal and professional papers from his long career as an author and journalist to the Southern Historical Collection of Manuscripts at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. A guide to the papers is available here.
