Crossing Over
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Richard Currey's first book, Crossing Over: The Vietnam Stories, originally published in 1980, was among the earliest works of fiction to emerge from the Vietnam war. Praised by activist priest and poet Daniel Berrigan as "true minimal art, where less is profoundly more," the book was selected by Library Journal as a "Best of the Year" title. Crossing Over was performed several times on both stage and radio (including a powerful performance by inmate-veterans at Raiford State Prison in Florida). Crossing Over has been in print for over 25 years.
Praise for Crossing Over
"Crossing Over is a poetically-bonded, gritty, vividly-detailed book with tersely understated emotion-thus might one characterize these articulate vignettes of war. Currey is humanely aware in these exceptional narratives, and his skills as a writer, honed in his other solidly crafted books, allow Crossing Over to vibrate...a field notebook, dreadful and beautiful."
—Joel Lipman in Tap Root Review
"Vietnam is a complicated story that will speak to us in many voices, and for a long time. In Crossing Over, Richard Currey's is one of the truest and most resonant of those voices."
—North American Review