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My Detachment by Tracy Kidder
The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Mountains Beyond Mountains presents an "acerbic, honest, moving memoir" (The New York Times Book Review) of his tour of duty in Vietnam."With a terrible beauty, [My Detachment] tells an old story--the illusions of war--in a new and compelling way."--USA Today
"Gripping . . . remarkable . . . poignant . . . perfectly rendered by one of our most original writers."--The Boston Globe
My Detachment is a war story like none you have ever read before, an unromanticized portrait of a young man coming of age in the controversial war that defined a generation. Master storyteller Tracy Kidder reflects on his service in Vietnam, looking back at himself from across three and a half decades and confessions how, as a young lieutenant, he sought to borrow from the tragedy around him and to imagine himself a romantic hero.
Unrelentingly honest, rueful, and revealing, My Detachment gives us war without heroism, while preserving those rare moments of redeeming grace in the midst of lunacy and danger. The officers and soldiers of My Detachment are not the sort of people who appear in war movies--they are the ones who appear only in war, and they are unforgettable.
A CHICAGO TRIBUNE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
Tracy Kidder attended the University of Iowa after graduating from Harvard. He has earned the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, and the Robert F. Kennedy Prize for Literature. Many more literary awards, including the Kennedy Award. Kidder lives in Massachusetts and Maine and is the author of Strength in What Remains, My Detachment, Mountains Beyond Mountains, Home Town, Old Friends, Among Schoolchildren, House, and The Soul of a New Machine.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780812976168 |
| ISBN 10 | 0812976169 |
| Title | My Detachment |
| Author | Tracy Kidder |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2006-10-24 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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