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My Detachment: A Memoir
by Kidder, Tracy
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. Inscribed on title page.
- ISBN 10
- 0375506152
- ISBN 13
- 9780375506154
- Seller
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Silver Spring, Maryland, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: Random House, 2005. First edition. First edition [stated]. First printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. Inscribed on title page.. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. [12], 192, [4] p. From Wikipedia: "John Tracy Kidder (born November 12, 1945) is an American writer of nonfiction books. He received the Pulitzer Prize for his The Soul of a New Machine (1981), about the creation of a new computer at Data General Corporation. He has received praise and awards for other works, including his biography of Paul Farmer, a doctor and anthropologist, titled Mountains Beyond Mountains (2003). Kidder is considered a literary journalist because of the strong story line and personal voice in his writing. He has cited as his writing influences John McPhee, A. J. Liebling, and George Orwell. In a 1984 interview he said, "McPhee has been my model. He's the most elegant of all the journalists writing today, I think." Kidder wrote in a 1994 essay, "In fiction, believability may have nothing to do with reality or even plausibility. It has everything to do with those things in nonfiction. I think that the nonfiction writer's fundamental job is to make what is true believable.""
Synopsis
Tracy Kidder graduated from Harvard and studied at the University of Iowa. He has won the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Robert F. Kennedy Award, and many other literary prizes. The author of Mountains Beyond Mountains, Home Town, Old Friends, Among Schoolchildren, House, and The Soul of a New Machine, Kidder lives in Massachusetts and Maine. From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- Ground Zero Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 69652
- Title
- My Detachment: A Memoir
- Author
- Kidder, Tracy
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by author. Inscribed on title page.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition. First edition [stated]. First printing [stated]
- ISBN 10
- 0375506152
- ISBN 13
- 9780375506154
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 2005
- Keywords
- Soldier, ROTC, Intelligence Officer, Communications Intelligence, Radio Transmissions, Military Operations
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