Автор:John Sacret Young Год: 2005 Издание: [не указанo] Страниц: 288 ISBN: 0374249032 Book Description When John Sacret Young's cousin, Doug was killed in Vietnam, Young learned that the remains of every Vietnam casualty fell into one of two official categories: Viewable or Non-Viewable. He also discovered that such categories appliedto how his New England family faced its own history. This compelling narrative is the haunting story of a man coming to terms with himself, with his family's past, with what he knows and will never know, and with his own future. Remains: Non-Viewable traces the close-knit lives of four men in Young's family: his uncle George, his cousin Doug, his father, and the author himself. In lyrical yet pungent prose, it illustrates how their seemingly tranquil existence on the Massachusetts shore is affected over the years by war, alcoholism, fading friendships and shifting memories of events gone by. Beautifully written and profoundly moving, Remains: Non-Viewable, a powerful and persuasive examination of fathers and...
