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Hitchhiking Home from Danang: A Memoir of Vietnam, PTSD and Reclamation

Hitchhiking Home from Danang: A Memoir of Vietnam, PTSD and Reclamation - Paperback

by Gerald A. McCarthy
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Availability:In StockContributor:Gerald A. McCarthyPublish date:2023-12-01Pages:249
Language:EnglishPublisher:McFarland & CompanyISBN-13:9781476692845ISBN-10:147669284XUPC:9781476692845Book Category:History, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Wars & ConflictsBook Topic:Vietnam WarSize:8.80 x 5.80 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SCWGY060SB

Gerald McCarthy enlisted in the Marines at 17 and volunteered for Vietnam. After the war he went AWOL, then to civilian jails and military brigs and finally to a Navy psychiatric ward, where he witnessed patient-attempted suicides. Medically discharged, he returned home to upstate New York and piecework in shoe factories. Written in two voices--one lucid, one dreamlike--his memoir delivers a jump-cut narrative of his troubled adolescence, his wartime experiences and his struggle to come unstuck from his own life.

Language:EnglishPublisher:McFarland & CompanyISBN-13:9781476692845ISBN-10:147669284XUPC:9781476692845Book Category:History, Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Wars & ConflictsBook Topic:Vietnam WarSize:8.80 x 5.80 x 0.70 inchesWeight:0.7518Product ID:SCWGY060SB
Poet Gerald A. McCarthy lives in Nyack, New York.
Publisher: McFarland & Company

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