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| Joe Carroll was an Air Force lieutenant general who chose Vietnamese targets for American bombs. Joe's son James began adulthood by fulfilling his father's abandoned dream of joining the priesthood. But soon a father's hopes for his son--and a son's peace with his father--were ruined, yet another casualty of a war that tore apart so many families along generational lines. |
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Key Information
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| Awards: |
1996 National Book Award |
| Authors: |
James Carroll |
| Nonfiction Subcategory: |
Catholics - Biography |
| Nonfiction Category: |
Biography & Autobiography |
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Professional Reviews
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Kirkus: "A fresh retelling of old stories about a son's struggles with his father and his God, and a memoir that may help put more demons to rest for the others of the '60s generation.", New York Times Book Review: "It is the experience of that time as personally painful but ultimately liberating that informs the novelist James Carroll's memoir...As a coming-of-age story, this is a sad one, evoking a profound sense of familial loss.", New York Times: "The dry bones of their relationship could not live. But in writing this bleak, tortured confession Mr. Carroll finally achieves a degree of reconciliation. And in telling the story of the sundering he cuts to the bone of our troubled times." |
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Book Editions
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- Paperback
- Reprint
- April 01, 1997
- Mariner Books
- 8.5"(h) x 5.75"(w) x 0.75"(d), 0.65 lbs.
- 9780395859933
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