Includes blibliographical references (pages 231-232) and index.
Contents:
Marking time -- Going south -- Nothing for nothing -- In the zone -- Waking up -- Back stories -- Falling forward.
Summary:
""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"-- Provided by publisher.
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