Hitchhiking Home from Danang

Gerald McCarthy enlisted in the Marines at 17 and volunteered for Vietnam. After the war he went AWOL, then to civilian jails and military brigs and finally to a Navy psychiatric ward. Written in two voices - one lucid, one dreamlike - his memoir delivers a jump-cut narrative of his experiences and his struggle to come unstuck from his own life.

Gerald McCarthy s-a inrolat in Marinei la 17 ani si s-a oferit voluntar pentru Vietnam. Dupa razboi, a plecat in inchisoare, apoi in inchisori civile si briganti militari si, in cele din urma, intr-o sectie de psihiatrie a Marinei.