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Staff Officers in Gray: A Biographical Register of the Staff Officers in the Army of Northern Virginia. Robert E. L. Krick

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Staff Officers in Gray: A Biographical Register of the Staff Officers in the Army of Northern Virginia Robert E. L. Krick. pdf ebook Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press Language: English Page: 360 ISBN: 0807827888, 9780807827888

From Publishers Weekly

This sharp, assured memoir, a follow-up to Crandell's childhood account Pig Boy's Wicked Bird, is a blue-collar work diary-as-coming of age trial, covering the summer of 1990 in Lagro, Ind. One credit shy of becoming his family's first college graduate, Crandell returns home to work in the ceiling tile factory where his father has worked since the family lost its farm. When he's not attending his Psychology of Sexual Behavior class an hour away, Crandell works 12-to-16-hour shifts alongside his father and the other imposing men of the Local 536 Paper Workers Union. The endless, numbing work at the factory leads Crandell to take up speed, a habit he shares with his father's long-time friend Jerry. Crandell's advancing drug dependence mirrors his father's struggle with alcohol and an affair, as well as the progress of asbestos-related illness in several factory men. Throughout, Crandell struggles with the idea of what makes a man: is it working with your hands? Can a real man make a living off words? And, perhaps most importantly, how do men comfort one another in times of grief? This sad, sharp memoir is graced with humor, hope, a strong sense of place and a winning narrator, making it a fine example of the form.
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"Looks at the wearying soul and jagged edges of Rust Belt America with sensitivity and sharpness...a truly unique voice."  —Dean Bakopoulos, author, Please Don’t Come Back from the Moon

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