Keeping Faith: A Father-Son Story about Love and the United States Marine Corps
John Schaeffer
(Author)
Frank Schaeffer
(Author)
Description
In 1998, Frank Schaeffer was a successful novelist living in Volvo-driving, higher-education worshipping Massachusetts with two children graduated from top universities. Then his youngest child, straight out of high school, joined the U.S. Marine Corps. Written in alternating voices by eighteen-year-old John and his father, Frank, Keeping Faith takes readers in riveting fashion through a family's experience of the U.S. Marine Corps. From being broken down and built back up on Parris Island (and being the parent of a child undergoing that experience), to the growth of both father and son and their separate reevaluations of what it means to serve. From Frank's realization that among his fellow soccer dads the very words 'boot camp' were pejorative, conjuring up 'troubled youths at risk' to John's learning that the Marine next to you is more important than you are, Keeping Faith is a fascinating and personal reconsideration of issues of class, duty, and patriotism. But as John and his fellow recruits battle to make the cut -- and John's family struggles to deal with the worry and separation, it is also an extremely timely, moving, and wonderfully written human interest story -- a moving chronicle of love, duty and patriotism in contemporary America. Beautifully written ... great insight and unselfconscious humor. -- Publishers WeeklyProduct Details
Price
$16.99
Publisher
Da Capo Press
Publish Date
December 01, 2003
Pages
272
Dimensions
5.6 X 8.6 X 0.8 inches | 0.8 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780786713080
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About the Author
John Schaeffer is the founder of Real Goods-the foremost global source for tools and information on renewable energy, energy efficiency and sustainable living. John is also the founder of the Solar Living Institute, based at the 12-acre solar-powered Solar Living Center in Hopland, California. John and his wife Nantzy grow biodynamic olives, grapes and lavender at their SunHawk Farms off- grid retreat in Mendocino County.
Frank Schaeffer is a New York Times bestselling author whose books include Keeping Faith (as seen on Oprah) and Crazy for God. He lives in Salisbury, Massachusetts.