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Description du livre Softcover. Etat : new. Reprint. A National Book Award Winner New York Times bestselling author James Carrolls An American Requiem is a tragic moving book about a family torn apart by the Vietnam War a young man looking for God a writer finding his voice Boston MagazineAn American Requiem is the story of one mans coming of age But more than that it is a coming to terms with the conflicts that disrupted many families inflicting personal wounds that were also social political and religiousJames Carroll grew up in a Catholic family that seemed blessed His father Joe had abandoned his own dream of becoming a priest to rise through the ranks of Hoovers FBI and then become one of the most powerful men in the Pentagon the founder of the Defense Intelligence Agency Young Jim lived the privileged life of a generals son dating the daughter of a vice president and meeting the pope all in the shadow of nuclear war waiting for the red telephone to ring in his parents house He worshiped his father until Martin Luther King Jr the civil rights movement turmoil in the Catholic Church and then Vietnam combined to outweigh the bond between father and son These were issues on which they would never agreeOnly after Carroll left the priesthood to become a writer and husband with children of his own did he come to understand fully the struggles his father had faced In this work of nonfiction the bestselling novelist draws on the skills he honed with nine muchadmired novels to tell the story he was literally born to tell An American Requiem is a benediction on his fathers life his familys struggles and the legacies of an entire generation. N° de réf. du vendeur DADAX039585993X
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