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An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War That Came Between Us: A National Book Award Winner Paperback - 1997
by James Carroll
targets for American bombs. Joe's son, James, began adulthood by fulfilling his father's abandoned dream of joining the priesthood. But soon a father's hopes for his son--and a son's peace with his father--were ruined, when James chose to protest the war and all it stood for. Winner of the National Book Award. 18 photos.
Summary
An American Requiem is the story of one man's coming of age. But more than that, it is a coming to terms with the conflicts that disrupted many families, inflicting personal wounds that were also social, political, and religious. Carroll grew up in a Catholic family that seemed blessed. His father had abandoned his own dream of becoming a priest to rise through the ranks of Hoover's FBI and then become one of the most powerful men in the Pentagon, the founder of the Defense Intelligence Agency. Young Jim lived the privileged life of a general's son, dating the daughter of a vice president and meeting the pope, all in the shadow of nuclear war, waiting for the red telephone to ring in his parents' house. He worshiped his father until Martin Luther King, Jr., the civil rights movement, turmoil in the Catholic Church, and then Vietnam combined to outweigh the bond between father and son. These were issues on which they would never agree. Only after Carroll left the priesthood to become a writer and husband with children of his own did he come to understand fully the struggles his father had faced. In this work of nonfiction, the best-selling novelist draws on the skills he honed with nine much-admired novels to tell the story he was, literally, born to tell. An American Requiem is a benediction on his father's life, his family's struggles, and the legacies of an entire generation.
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CATHOLICS CALLED IT Our Lady of Perpetual Help, but to the Jews and Protestants who also took turns worshiping there, it was just "the chapel."
Details
- Title An American Requiem: God, My Father, and the War That Came Between Us: A National Book Award Winner
- Author James Carroll
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 352
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Paperbacks, Boston
- Date April 1, 1997
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Illustrated
- ISBN 9780395859933 / 039585993X
- Weight 0.68 lbs (0.31 kg)
- Dimensions 8.49 x 5.34 x 0.74 in (21.56 x 13.56 x 1.88 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1950-1999
- Cultural Region: Southeast Asian
- Library of Congress subjects Fathers and sons - United States, Novelists, American - 20th century - Family
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95052125
- Dewey Decimal Code B
Media reviews
"Autobiography at its best." Publishers Weekly
"A tragic, moving book about a family torn apart by the Vietnam War, a young man looking for God, a writer finding his voice." -- Boston Magazine
"A tragic, moving book about a family torn apart by the Vietnam War, a young man looking for God, a writer finding his voice." -- Boston Magazine
Citations
- New York Times, 04/06/1997, Page 32
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