Idle and Disorderly Persons

About the Book

A Vietnam War novel that focuses on the home front and the impact of the peace movement upon the personal lives of several American middle-class families.

“Mary Hazzard has developed into a fine and careful recorder of human relationships. I dare anyone to leave (this book) unfinished.”
—The New York Times

“A book one reads in one sitting.”
—Review Service, Dutch Public Libraries

About the Author

Mary Hazzard has written four novels and numerous plays. A Yale Drama graduate, she has received fellowships from the NEA, Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, Yaddo, and the MacDowell Colony. Her 1999 novel, Family Blood, won the Ariadne Fiction Prize. She lives near Boston.