{"product_id":"my-detachment-a-memoir-paperback","title":"My Detachment: A Memoir - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eTracy Kidder\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eMy Detachment\u003c\/b\u003e 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. In an astonishingly honest, comic, and moving account of his tour of duty in Vietnam, master storyteller Tracy Kidder writes for the first time about himself. This extraordinary memoir is destined to become a classic. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKidder was an ROTC intelligence officer, just months out of college and expecting a stateside assignment, when his orders arrived for Vietnam. There, lovesick, anxious, and melancholic, he tried to assume command of his detachment, a ragtag band of eight more-or-less ungovernable men charged with reporting on enemy radio locations. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHe eventually learned not only to lead them but to laugh and drink with them as they shared the boredom, pointlessness, and fear of war. Together, they sought a ghostly enemy, homing in on radio transmissions and funneling intelligence gathered by others. Kidder realized that he would spend his time in Vietnam listening in on battle but never actually experiencing it. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWith remarkable clarity and with great detachment, Kidder looks back at himself from across three and a half decades, confessing 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, \u003cb\u003eMy Detachment\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003egives us war without heroism, while preserving those rare moments of redeeming grace in the midst of lunacy and danger. The officers and men of \u003cb\u003eMy Detachment\u003c\/b\u003e are not the sort of people who appear in war movies-they are the ones who appear only in war, and they are unforgettable.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eTracy Kidder graduated from Harvard and studied at the University of Iowa. He has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Award, and many other literary prizes. The author of Mountains Beyond Mountains, Home Town, Old Friends, Among Schoolchildren, House, and The Soul of a New Machine, Kidder lives in Massachusetts and Maine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 208\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.45 x 8 x 5.26 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e October 24, 2006\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51750037684512,"sku":"9780812976168","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/f900bd8d98c98a02b62a6439758fb82c.webp?v=1779941741","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/my-detachment-a-memoir-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}