Blue-eyed boy: a memoir 9781101631409, 1101631406
From journalist Robert Timberg, a memoir of the struggle to reclaim his life after being severely burned as a Marine lie
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English Year 2014
Table of contents :
Prologue: Mirror, Mirror on the Wall --
Short-Timer --
War Stories --
Sleepless Days, Sleepless Nights --
Janie --
"Where's the Burn?" --
Wasting Away in Yokohamaville --
Lynn --
The Skin Game --
Nut-Cutting Time (1) --
The Wichita Lineman --
Sylvia Samurai --
Nut-Cutting Time (2) --
Cub Reporter --
Grilling the Preacher --
Like a Marine to Mud --
The Knight Errant --
A Fish Story --
Scarsdale Galahad --
Kansas City Here I Come --
Red Chief --
Walking the Ground --
Punch-Drunk --
The Great Escape --
The Pink Bathrobe Year --
Anybody's Kid --
Breaking the Plane --
The Nieman Effect --
Ollie, Bud, and John --
The Banality of Evil --
The Private War of Ollie and Jim --
Five Characters in Search of an Author --
The Nightingale's Song --
Identity Crisis --
Talking the Talk --
The Crown Prince --
Hoosiers --
Stalking the Admiral --
Bud --
Call Ollie --
Friends in High Places --
The Kick-Ass Troubadour --
Lost --
Full Circle --
Highs and Lows --
Epilogue: The Footlocker.
