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Chasing Ghosts (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

"Both a beautifully detailed examination of wartime life and a searingly honest depiction of a fraught father-daughter relationship." -Phil Klay, National Book Award-winning author of Missionaries When literary biographer and memoirist Louise DeSalvo embarked upon a journey to learn why her father came home from World War II a changed man, she didn't realize her quest would take ten years, and that it would yield more revelations about the man-and herself-and the effect of his military service upon their family than she'd ever imagined. Although DeSalvo at first believes she wants to uncover his story, the story of a man who was no hero but who was nonetheless adversely affected by his military service, she learns that what she really wants is to recover the man that he was before he went away. As DeSalvo and her father uncover his past piece-by-piece, bit-by-bit, she learns about the dreams of a working-class man who entered the military in the late 1930s during peacetime to better himself, a man who wanted to become a pilot. She learns about what it was like for him to participate in war games in the Pacific prior to the war, and its devastating toll. She learns about what it was like for her parents to fall in love, set up house, marry, and have children during this cataclysmic time. And as the pieces of her father's life fall into place, she finds herself finally able to understand him. "[An] excellent memoir. Louise DeSalvo remembers her soldier father in a manner both unsparing and elegiac." -Alexandra Styron, author of Steal This Country

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780823268726
• Artikelnr.: 49540160

Autorenporträt

Louise DeSalvo started the MFA in Memoir Program at Hunter College where she held the Jenny Hunter Endowed Chair for Literature and Creative Writing until her retirement in 2017. She is the author of several books including Virginia Woolf, Vertigo, and The Art of Slow Writing.