My Detachment: A Memoir

My Detachment: A Memoir - Paperback

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My Detachment: A Memoir - Paperback

My Detachment: A Memoir - Paperback

by Tracy Kidder
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by Tracy Kidder (Author)

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Mountains Beyond Mountains presents an "acerbic, honest, moving memoir" (The New York Times Book Review) of his tour of duty in Vietnam.

"With a terrible beauty, [My Detachment] tells an old story--the illusions of war--in a new and compelling way."--USA Today

"Gripping . . . remarkable . . . poignant . . . perfectly rendered by one of our most original writers."--The Boston Globe

My Detachment is a war story like none you have ever read before, an unromanticized portrait of a young man coming of age in the controversial war that defined a generation. Master storyteller Tracy Kidder reflects on his service in Vietnam, looking back at himself from across three and a half decades and confessions how, as a young lieutenant, he sought to borrow from the tragedy around him and to imagine himself a romantic hero.

Unrelentingly honest, rueful, and revealing, My Detachment gives us war without heroism, while preserving those rare moments of redeeming grace in the midst of lunacy and danger. The officers and soldiers of My Detachment are not the sort of people who appear in war movies--they are the ones who appear only in war, and they are unforgettable.

A CHICAGO TRIBUNE BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

Author Biography

Tracy Kidder graduated from Harvard and the University of Iowa. He won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Award, and many other literary prizes. He is the author of Rough Sleepers, A Truck Full of Money, Good Prose (with Richard Todd), Strength in What Remains, My Detachment, Mountains Beyond Mountains, Home Town, Old Friends, Among Schoolchildren, House, and The Soul of a New Machine. Kidder passed away in 2026.

Number of Pages: 208
Dimensions: 0.45 x 8 x 5.26 IN
Publication Date: October 24, 2006
ISBN9780812976168
Author Tracy Kidder
PublisherRandom House Publishing Group
GenreBiography and History
FormatPaperback
PublishedOctober 2006
LanguageENG- English
Pages208
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Biography & Autobiography History Nonfiction Wars & Conflicts

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