Keeping Faith: A Father-Son Story About Love and the United States Marine Corps - Brossura

Schaeffer, John

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ISBN 10: 0786713089 ISBN 13: 9780786713080

Casa editrice: Da Capo Press, 2003

Riassunto

In 1998, Frank Schaeffer was a bohemian novelist living in "Volvo driving, higher-education worshipping" Massachusetts with two children graduated from top universities. Then his youngest child, straight out of high school, joined the United States Marine Corps. Written in alternating voices by eighteen-year-old John and his father, Frank, Keeping Faith takes readers in riveting fashion through a family's experience of the Marine Corps: from being broken down and built back up on Parris Island (and being the parent of a child undergoing that experience), to the growth of both father and son and their separate reevaluations of what it means to serve. From Frank's realization that among his fellow soccer dads "the very words'boot camp' were pejorative, conjuring up'troubled youths at risk'" ("'But aren't they all terribly southern?' asked one parent") to John's learning that "the Marine next to you is more important than you are," Keeping Faith , a New York Times bestseller , is a fascinating and personal examination of issues of class, duty, and patriotism. The fact that John is currently serving in the Middle East only adds to the impact of this wonderfully written, timely, and moving human interest story.

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The New York Times extended list bestseller as seen on Oprah, 20/20, Nightline, and Meet the Press, and in People magazine, Reader's Digest and on page one of the Los Angeles Times

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• Editore: Da Capo Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0786713089
• ISBN 13: 9780786713080
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 272