Stumper

[Ken Jones]

> Ran across this in this year's Penguin Fiction Challenge. One of the clues
> for a book is:
> 
> "Surely one of this century's most important works of fiction, this
> complex novel in the tradition of James Joyce's Ulysses charts the modern
> world's 'progress' towards devastation and features a classic anti-hero in
> the personage of an American lieutenant whose body anticipates German
> rocket launchings."

Sounds like "Danielle Steele's Vietnam"