{"product_id":"the-girl-in-the-picture-isbn-9780140280210","title":"The Girl in the Picture","description":"\u003cb\u003e\"More than any other Vietnam book in recent years, The Girl in the Picture confronts us with the ceaseless, ever-compounding casualties of modern warfare.\" —The San Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn June 8, 1972, nine-year-old Kim Phuc, severely burned by napalm, ran from her blazing village in South Vietnam and into the eye of history. Her photograph-one of the most unforgettable images of the twentieth century-was seen around the world and helped turn public opinion against the Vietnam War.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis book is the story of how that photograph came to be-and the story of what happened to that girl after the camera shutter closed. Award-winning biographer Denise Chong's portrait of Kim Phuc-who eventually defected to Canada and is now a UNESCO spokesperson-is a rare look at the Vietnam War from the Vietnamese point-of-view and one of the only books to describe everyday life in the wake of this war and to probe its lingering effects on all its participants.\"An extraordinary piece of journalism.\" \u003cb\u003e—The Baltimore Sun\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"More than any other Vietnam book in recent years, \u003cb\u003eThe Girl in the Picture\u003c\/b\u003e confronts us with the ceaseless, ever-compounding casualties of modern warfare.\" \u003cb\u003e—The San Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDenise Chong\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of \u003cb\u003eThe Concubine's Children\u003c\/b\u003e (\u003cb\u003eViking and Penguin\u003c\/b\u003e), a \u003cb\u003eBook-of-the-Month Club\u003c\/b\u003e selection. She is the editor of \u003cb\u003eThe Penguin Anthology of Stories by Canadian Women\u003c\/b\u003e and lives in Ottawa, Ontario, with her husband and two children.","brand":"Penguin Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46302250631397,"sku":"NP9780140280210","price":24.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780140280210.jpg?v=1767739533","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/the-girl-in-the-picture-isbn-9780140280210","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}