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02312aam a22003498i 4500 001 7E54DCAAC45211E79160C83B97128E48 003 SILO 005 20171108010016 008 170505t20171970nyu 000 1 eng 010 $a 2017015363 020 $a 1510727752 (softcover : acid-free paper) 020 $a 9781510727755 (softcover : acid-free paper) 035 $a (OCoLC)987070309 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d BDX $d OCLCF $d YDX $d TXDRI $d SO$ $d IOU $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PS3566.O6 $b L37 2017 082 00 $a 813/.54 $2 23 100 1 $a Ponicsan, Darryl, $e author. 245 14 $a The last detail : $b a novel / $c Darryl PonicsaÌn ; with a new preface by the author. 250 $a First Skyhorse edition. 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Skyhorse Publishing, $c 2017. 300 $a xix, 182 pages ; $c 21 cm 520 $a Unlike other branches of the armed services, the Navy draws it police force from the ranks, as temporary duty called Shore Patrol. In this funny, bawdy, moving novel set during the height of the Vietnam War, two career sailors in transit in Norfolk, Virginia -- Billy "Bad-Ass" Buddusky and Mule Mulhall -- are assigned to escort eighteen-year-old Larry Meadows from Norfolk to the brig in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where he is to serve an eight-year sentence for petty theft. It's good duty, until the two old salts realize the injustice of the sentence and are oddly affected by the naive innocence of their young prisoner. In the five days allotted for the detail, they decide to show Meadows something of the life he doesn't yet know, to help him survive the long ordeal ahead and to purge their own shame. What follows is an unlikely road trip by bus and train up the Eastern seaboard and an indelible journey of initiation and discovery, filled with beer-soaked wisdom, big city lights, revelry, brawls, debauchery, love, and surprising moments of tenderness. 610 10 $a United States. $b Navy $x Petty officers $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Naval offenses $z United States $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Prisoners $z United States $v Fiction. 650 0 $a Sailors $z United States $v Fiction. 941 $a 1 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20171108010320.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=7E54DCAAC45211E79160C83B97128E48 994 $a C0 $b IOUInitiate Another SILO Locator Search