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Black Glasses Like Clark Kent: A GI's Secret from Postwar Japan
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- Title
- Black Glasses Like Clark Kent: A GI's Secret from Postwar Japan
- ISBN
- 9781555974909
- Book Title
- Black Glasses like Clark Kent : a Gi's Secret from Postwar Japan
- Item Length
- 8 in
- Publisher
- Graywolf Press
- Publication Year
- 2008
- Format
- Trade Paperback
- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 0.7 in
- Genre
- Biography & Autobiography, History
- Topic
- Military / Veterans, Military / World War II, Personal Memoirs, Military
- Item Width
- 5.7 in
- Item Weight
- 10.9 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 112 Pages
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After her Uncle's suicide, Terese Svoboda investigates his stunning claim that MPs may have executed their own men during the occupation of Japan after World war II Our captain] commended us for being good soldiers and doing our job well and having a minimum of problems. Then he dropped a bomb. He said the prison was getting overcrowded, terribly overcrowded. As a child Terese Svoboda thought of her uncle as Superman, with "Black Clark Kent glasses, grapefruit-sized biceps." At eighty, he could still boast a washboard stomach, but in March 2004, he became seriously depressed. Svoboda investigates his terrifying story of what happened during his time as an MP, interviewing dozens of elderly ex-GIs and visiting Japan to try to discover the truth. In Black Glasses Like Clark Kent , winner of the Graywolf Nonfiction Prize, Svoboda offers a striking and carefully wrought personal account of an often painful search for information. She intersperses excerpts of her uncle's recordings and letters to his wife with her own research, and shows how the vagaries of military justice can allow the worst to happen and then be buried by time and protocol
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Publisher
Graywolf Press
ISBN-10
1555974902
ISBN-13
9781555974909
eBay Product ID (ePID)
61488088
Product Key Features
Book Title
Black Glasses like Clark Kent : a Gi's Secret from Postwar Japan
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Military / Veterans, Military / World War II, Personal Memoirs, Military
Publication Year
2008
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography, History
Number of Pages
112 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
8 in
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Width
5.7 in
Item Weight
10.9 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Ps3569
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"A sense of urgency pervades all of [Svoboda's] work, giving the words a pulse, making her language race with insistence." --Poets & Writers, "A sense of urgency pervades all of [Svoboda's] work, giving the words a pulse, making her language race with insistence." -- Poets & Writers, A sense of urgency pervades all of [Svoboda's] work, giving the words a pulse, making her language race with insistence., "A sense of urgency pervades all of [Svoboda's] work, giving the words a pulse, making her language race with insistence." --"Poets & Writers", " A sense of urgency pervades all of [Svoboda' s] work, giving the words a pulse, making her language race with insistence." -- "Poets & Writers", "A sense of urgency pervades all of [Svoboda's] work, giving the words a pulse, making her language race with insistence." -Poets & Writers, Â"A sense of urgency pervades all of [Svoboda's] work, giving the words a pulse, making her language race with insistence.Â" Â--Poets & Writers
Copyright Date
2008
Target Audience
Trade
Lccn
2007-925191
Dewey Decimal
952.044092
Dewey Edition
22
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