Shrapnel - Hardcover

Marie-manilla

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1579660843 ISBN 13: 9781579660840

Verlag: River City Publishing, 2012

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Book by Marie Manilla

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Shrapnel explores the legacy of war in three generations of American men. Bing Butler is a 77-year-old widower from Texas, resisting a move to West Virginia to live with his daughterhis ideological opposite. A veteran of World War II, Bing has become so anxious with the political and cultural shifts of the post-9/11 world that he has buried his long-gestating insecurities (along with may painful family secrets) beneath crusty layers of racism, classism, and homophobia. Despite his own fears that he is not among the greatest of his generation, Bing forges a peculiar bond with his grandsongung-ho to enlist and fight in the ongoing battles of the Persian Gulf, just as Bing himself had been back in the 1940s. But as Bing grapples with the expired fervors and gnawing questions of his own pastparticularly his own harsh insistence that his son enlist and serve in the Vietnam conflicthe realizes that his grandson might be better off traveling a different path. Bings problem will be showing him the way, despite his own example. This emotional journey leads through a maze of misadventuressometimes funny, sometimes frighteningtowards the realization that the swiftest path to home is often clogged with the most debris.

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• Verlag: River City Publishing
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1579660843
• ISBN 13: 9781579660840
• Einband: Tapa dura