The last detail a novel
In this novel set during the height of the Vietnam War, two career sailors in transit in Norfolk, VirginiaBilly "Bad-Ass" Buddusky and Mule Mulhall-- are assigned to escort eighteen-year-old Larry Meadows from Norfolk to the brig in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where he is to serve an eight-year sente...
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Skyhorse Publishing,
2017.
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| Edition: | First Skyhorse edition. |
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| Summary: | In this novel set during the height of the Vietnam War, two career sailors in transit in Norfolk, VirginiaBilly "Bad-Ass" Buddusky and Mule Mulhall-- are assigned to escort eighteen-year-old Larry Meadows from Norfolk to the brig in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where he is to serve an eight-year sentence for petty theft. It's good duty, until the two old salts realize the injustice of the sentence and are oddly affected by the naive innocence of their young prisoner. In the five days allotted for the detail, they decide to show Meadows something of the life he doesn't yet know, to help him survive the long ordeal ahead and to purge their own shame. What follows is an unlikely road trip by bus and train up the Eastern seaboard and an indelible journey of initiation and discovery, filled with beer-soaked wisdom, big city lights, revelry, brawls, debauchery, love, and surprising moments of tenderness. |
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| Physical Description: | xix, 182 pages ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9781510727755 1510727752 |
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