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02964aam a2200517 i 4500 001 D01C3D28141211EF8F56A7732FECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240517010047 008 231030s2024 ncua b 001 0aeng 010 $a 2023048850 020 $a 147669284X 020 $a 9781476692845 035 $a (OCoLC)1370125758 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d YDX $d OCLCF $d OCLCO $d NJB $d OCLCO $d MUU $d NUI $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a PS3563.A25917 $b Z46 2024 082 00 $a B $a B $2 23/eng/20231122 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 ReÌcits 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 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20240517010358.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=D01C3D28141211EF8F56A7732FECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search