9780684855615 - State of Grace: A Memoir of Twilight Time von Timberg, Robert (7 Ergebnisse)

Zustand: Good. Good condition ex-library book with usual library markings and stickers.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. No Jacket. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.

Zustand: Good. Signed Copy First edition copy. . Very Good dust jacket. Inscribed by author on title page. (football, history, memoir).

hardcover. Zustand: Very Good. Unmarked hardcover in unclipped jacket.Flat signed by author Robert Timberg.

Hardcover. Zustand: New. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New. 1st Edition. New York: Free Press [2004]. First edition. First printing. Hardbound. New! Very fine/very fine in all respects. A pristine unread copy, flawless. SIGNED BY AUTHOR on title page. Author has signed his name only, with no other writing or marks. Comes with mylar dust jacket protector. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: good. First Printing [Stated]. ix, [1], 292, [2] -ages. Lynvets two page photograph. Inscribed by the author on the title page: Inscription reads "To John--In memory of past political battles & a hellova lot of fun. Cheers, Bob Timberg, 4/23/05." Includes Epilogue and Acknowledgments. Robert Richard "Bob" Timberg (June 16, 1940 - September 6, 2016) was an American journalist, writer, and author of four books, including The Nightingale's Song. Timberg received his college education at the United States Naval Academy and his journalism degree at Stanford University. He served with the United States Marine Corps in Vietnam from March 1966 to February 1967. He worked for many years as a reporter for The Evening Sun and The Baltimore Sun. He is also the author of John McCain: An American Odyssey and State of Grace: A Memoir of Twilight Time. His memoir Blue Eyed Boy charts his struggle to recover from his wounds. The author, who served with the First Marine Division in South Vietnam from March 1966 to February 1967, revives the powerful themes of courage, manhood, and loss in a strikingly personal exploration of America between the "Good War" and Vietnam. From the author of the critically acclaimed The Nightingale's Song, comes an evocative, elegiac and rollicking portrait of America. Robert Timberg has his finger on the pulse of a generation that split along a fault line called Vietnam, between those who went and those who didn't. In his unflinching and riveting The Nightingale's Song, Timberg chronicled a nation haunted by the war and its corrosive aftermath. Now, in State of Grace, the author rediscovers an earlier time and an America now largely lost. Using the New York City sandlot football team he played for after high school as a rich metaphor for what was best about that bygone era, Timberg evokes the period in fine detail and vivid color. It was a world of girls, beer and the proverbial Big Game, but it also was defined by faith in tradition and institutions, including a still unsullied Catholic Church. State of Grace captures life on the threshold of Kennedy's Camelot, before the Beatles, before the Pill, but in the ever-expanding shadow of Vietnam. The tale is told through Timberg's own eyes as he moves from troubled youth to man, from running back on a team called the Lynvets to Naval Academy plebe to Marine officer. The story is also told through a collection of other characters, including a genius of a coach overmatched when off the field, a driven quarterback sidetracked by booze and an angry loner fresh from the army stockade who reclaims his life on the gridiron.