Vain Hopes, Grim Realities: The Economic Consequences Of The Vietnam War by Stevens, Robert Warren 1976Within the confines of a Midwestern college town, Century's Son poignantly explores all that remains unsaid between family members still mourning the suicide of a teenage son. Robert Boswell's novel involves Zhenya Kamenev, a political science professor soured by the tragedy; her union activist turned garbage collector husband, Morgan, and his thug partner in trouble with the law; her daughter, who has never disclosed who fathered the son she had