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Keep Your Head Down: A Memoir
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Keep Your Head Down: A Memoir Hardback - 2009

by Doug Anderson

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An award-winning poet highlights the vibrant history of his generation in a farewell to Vietnam, the chaotic 1960s, and their long aftermath.

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"We tend to write about what will not go away," Doug Anderson says in this candid, darkly humorous journey of self-discovery. Beginning in 1943, in the pre-civil rights South filled with tobacco and war stories, he recalls the difficult childhood that propels him into service in Vietnam. In 1967, having returned home deeply shaken by his experience as a combat medical corpsman, Anderson plunges into the heady freedoms and excesses of the sixties. His downward spiral--through booze, substance abuse, and sex--brings him dangerously close to a total breakdown. Finally, in a return group visit to Vietnam in 2000, he meets with former enemies now become writers and poets. Moved by the realization that "the last time I saw these people they were trying to kill me," Anderson confronts the past and calls upon a story--this powerful story--to rebuild a life.

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  • Title Keep Your Head Down: A Memoir
  • Author Doug Anderson
  • Binding Hardback
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 288
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher W. W. Norton & Company, NY
  • Publication date 2009-07
  • Features Dust Cover, Price on Product - Canadian
  • ISBN 9780393068559 / 0393068552
  • Weight 0.9 lbs (0.41 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.54 x 6.5 x 1.08 in (24.23 x 16.51 x 2.74 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 1960's
  • Category Biography / Autobiography
  • Library of Congress subjects Poets, American, United States - History - 1961-1969
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 2009009093
  • Dewey Decimal Code B

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  • Kirkus Reviews, 05/01/2009, Page 0
  • Publishers Weekly, 05/04/2009, Page 43
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