Through a long absence
Subtitle: words from my father's wars
By: Joy Passanante
Series: 21st century essays
Publisher: Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press
Published: 2017
Place of publication: Columbus
Language: eng
Number of pages: 289
ISBN-13: 9780814254240
Copyright date: 2017
Subjects: Family; World War, 1939-1945; Biography; Veterans; Fathers; Diaries
Table of contents: title: Leaving America; title: North Africa; title: December 24, 1942 to July 28, 1943; The first field ; Bedside manor ; Absence ; Art blooms in Africa ; Bart and his daughter recall his boyhood in St. Louis ; The boxcar to Algeria ; The hospital in the racetrack ; Bertie, barely seventeen ; Singled out ; The good mother ; Yowee. they ain't kiddin' ; Bertie and Sammy ; A cliff and an olive grove ; Coming up in the world; title: Sicily, Italy; title: July 30, 1943 to November 11, 1943; The real thing ; Dark corners ; A strange ebullience ; Shootout ; The spreading black cloud ; Enter spring ; A world light-years away ; Armed and ready ; Experienced travelers, the twenty-first century ; Bart and Benedetto ; The artist before la liberazione ; Stranger at the funeral; title: England; title: November 26, 1943 to June 9, 1944; Tortworth Court ; Searching for a bridge to Wales ; Blaster Passanante ; The murky specter of change ; Here we go ; The twenty-first century; title: and the eighteenth; title: France; title: June 10, 1944 to September 28, 1944; Normandy ; Ste.-Marie-du-Mont, Boutteville, the first eighteen days ; Pont l'Abbé ; La Cambe ; Marigny and Brécey ; Somewhere in France ; St. Louis, Bertie's letters imagined ; Normandy, the battle for memory, the twenty-first century ; Held for greater things ; After the liberation; title: Holland; title: September 28, 1944 to March 1, 1945; The big push is underway ; The landscape, the portrait, and the tunnels ; Anything for a laugh ; Nancy Drew and the Hardy boy, the twenty-first century ; A picture a kid shouldn't see; title: Germany; title: March 2, 1945 to July 7, 1945; Deep in the heart of Germany ; Witnessing ; The fragrance of roses ; The journey back ; The final field, the twenty-first century ; Restoration; title: Epilogue: Leaving us.