A dangerous country, an American elegy, Ron Kovic
Type
Label
A dangerous country, an American elegy, Ron Kovic
Language
eng
resource.biographical
autobiography
Index
no index present
Literary Form
non fiction
Main title
A dangerous country
Oclc number
1376494994
Responsibility statement
Ron Kovic
Sub title
an American elegy
Summary
"Ron Kovic, author of Born on the Fourth of July and one of the country’ s most powerful and passionate antiwar voices, completes his Vietnam Trilogy with this poignant, inspiring, and deeply personal elegy to America" --, Publisher's description
Table Of Contents
Part I: Vietnam diary, 1967-1968 ; Part II: breaking the silence of the night. A violent sprint -- The awful twilight -- Breaking the silence -- Confessing the sins of America -- Kennedy -- Expatriate -- Return to America -- The sea lodge -- A simple talk in a country graveyard -- Memorial service -- A letter to my mother and father -- Wounding -- In the presence of my enemy -- Alone in our rooms -- Breaking the crucifix -- The black spot ; Part III: the long journey home. San Francisco: the Paris of the West -- The art of healing -- The war is over: a celebration of life -- Tracers -- Mona -- A fool for love -- Locked steel doors and wire windows -- Escape from the psychiatric ward -- Massapequa -- Return to LA -- Reckoning -- Breakdown -- Strange days -- Darkness - A new dawn