Memoirs of a Cold War Son (Singular Lives: The Iowa Series in
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A memoir of American boyhood during World War II. Gaines Post was a gangly, bespectacled teenager preparing to spend a year in Paris with his father and elder brother. His story is one of high school... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0877457018
ISBN13:9780877457015
Release Date:April 2000
Publisher:University of Iowa Press
Length:246 Pages
Weight:1.10 lbs.
Dimensions:0.8" x 6.0" x 9.6"
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Memoirs of a Cold War Son
Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 25 years ago
This is a wonderfully introspective book, written by the intellectually driven Prof. Post. There are similarities to `Remembrance of Things Past', by Marcel Proust. The obvious exceptions are Post's evident heterosexuality and the length of the works. Post is continually in search for his identity and his role in the world, which is apparently a dynamic of his life. The level of detail is at times a bit overwhelming, especially in his military sojourn in Germany, although this is also a crucial episode, not only in his life, but in the search for meaning of `the cold war son'. He has a most wonderful interaction with his close knit family and his constant search for the meaning of his mother's psychological collapse during and post WWII, appears to be a driving force in his search for the meaning of his life. This is truly a gripping rendition of a man's struggle with his own psychology and a glimpse of the world events surrounding his formative years of identity.
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