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Titel: Keep Your Head Down
Zustand: Neu
Subtitle: Vietnam, the Sixties, and a Journey of Self-Discovery
Autor: Doug Anderson
Produktart: Gebundene Ausgabe
ISBN-10: 0393068552
EAN: 9780393068559
ISBN: 9780393068559
Verlag: WW Norton & Co
Genre: Sports & Hobbies
Thematik: Biography
Erscheinungsdatum: 28.07.2009
Description: “We tend to write about what will not go away,” Doug Anderson says in this candid, darkly humorous journey of self-discovery. Beginning in 1943, in the pre–civil rights South filled with tobacco and war stories, he recalls the difficult childhood that propels him into service in Vietnam. In 1967, having returned home deeply shaken by his experience as a combat medical corpsman, Anderson plunges into the heady freedoms and excesses of the sixties. His downward spiral—through booze, substance abuse, and sex—brings him dangerously close to a total breakdown. Finally, in a return group visit to Vietnam in 2000, he meets with former enemies now become writers and poets. Moved by the realization that “the last time I saw these people they were trying to kill me,” Anderson confronts the past and calls upon a story—this powerful story—to rebuild a life.
Sprache: Englisch
Herstellungsland und -region: US
Höhe: 244mm
Länge: 165mm
Breite: 28mm
Gewicht: 464g
Title Format: Gebundene Ausgabe

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