Tracy Crow

Eyes Right (eBook, PDF)

Confessions from a Woman Marine

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Just out of high school in 1977, her personal life already a mess, Tracy Crow thought the Marines might straighten her out. And sure enough, in the Corps she became a respected public affairs officer and military journalist¿one day covering tank maneuvers or beach assaults, the next interviewing the secretary of the navy. But success didn't come without a price.

When Crow pledged herself to God, Corps, and Country, women Marines were still a rarity, and gender inequality and harassment were rampant. Determined to prove she belonged, Crow always put her career first¿even when, after two miscarriages and a stillborn child, her marriage to another Marine officer began to deteriorate. And when her affair with a prominent general was exposed¿and both were threatened with court-martial¿Crow was forced to re-evaluate her loyalty to the Marines, her career, and her family.

Eyes Right is Crow's story. A clear-eyed self-portrait of a troubled teen...

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780803240285
• Artikelnr.: 37855212

Autorenporträt

Tracy Crow is an assistant professor of creative writing at Eckerd College in St. Petersburg, Florida, and the nonfiction editor of Prime Number magazine. Her essays and short stories have appeared in a number of literary journals and been nominated for three Pushcart Prizes. Under the pen name Carver Greene, Crow published the conspiracy thriller An Unlawful Order, the first in a new series to feature a military heroine.