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ISBN | 9781920315580 |
Format | HardBound |
Language | English |
Year of Publication | 2010 |
Bib. Info | 556p.; |
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On its surface Shaking Hands with Billy is the story of one mans odyssey. And odyssey is, I believe, the correct word, neither overstatement nor misrepresentation. To be sure, many chapters in Anthony Turtons personal narrative describe the recruitment and work of a Cold War soldier instilling in him a sense of detachment, manifest in that chilling, if necessary, thousand yard stare. Yet it is less a tactical, macho, warrior epic like the Odyssey than an alienated veterans dragged-out struggle, his repeated attempts to reconcile himself to a political landscape that is both strange and at times uncomfortable, and then to embrace the chaos and complexity as, for better or worse, his only home. James G. Workman