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100 1  $a McCarthy, Gerald, $d 1947- $e author.
245 10 $a Hitchhiking home from Danang : $b a memoir of Vietnam, PTSD and reclamation / $c Gerald A. McCarthy.
264  1 $a Jefferson, North Carolina : $b McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, $c [2024]
300    $a xii, 237 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm
520    $a ""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 the 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."-Provided by publisher"-- $c Provided by publisher.
504    $a Includes blibliographical references (pages 231-232) and index.
505 0  $a Marking time -- Going south -- Nothing for nothing -- In the zone -- Waking up -- Back stories -- Falling forward.
600 10 $a McCarthy, Gerald, $d 1947-
610 10 $a United States. $b Marine Corps $v Biography.
610 17 $a United States. $b Marine Corps $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00528845
648  7 $a 1961-1975 $2 fast
650  0 $a Poets, American $v Biography.
650  0 $a Vietnam War, 1961-1975 $v Personal narratives, American.
650  0 $a Post-traumatic stress disorder $z United States.
650  7 $a Poets, American $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01067794
650  7 $a Post-traumatic stress disorder $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01072762
651  7 $a United States $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155
655  7 $a autobiographies (literary works) $2 aat $0 (CStmoGRI)aatgf300080104
655  7 $a Biographies $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01919896
655  7 $a Personal narratives $v American $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01424071
655  7 $a Autobiographies. $2 lcgft
655  7 $a Personal narratives. $2 lcgft
655  7 $a Autobiographies. $2 rvmgf $0 (CaQQLa)RVMGF-000000520
655  7 $a Récits personnels. $2 rvmgf $0 (CaQQLa)RVMGF-000000517
776 08 $i Online version: $a McCarthy, Gerald, 1947- $t Hitchhiking home from Danang. $d Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2024] $z 9781476650449 $w (OCoLC)1415973966
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