Bibliograph

My detachment, a memoir, Tracy Kidder

Type

Label

My detachment, a memoir, Tracy Kidder

Language

eng

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

My detachment

Responsibility statement

Tracy Kidder

Sub title

a memoir

Summary

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. 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. Kidder 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.--, Amazon.com

Target audience

adult

Classification