Between the Flags

by Friedman

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Cool, elegant, pure, and yet surprisingly eccentric, the thirteen stories in Between the Flags explore contradictions of American experience since World War II. This retrospective of B.H. Friedman's work begins with As I Am I Will Be, as its central character, Little Boy, faces civilian life after the war. It ends with the title story, in which a nameless man fights for his life against the sea and afterward realizes how little of his identity he carries away. Between these two periods - the forties and the eighties, youth and old age - life stories filled with regret, humor,...Read more
  • ISBN10 0932511295
  • ISBN13 9780932511294
  • Publish Date 30 June 2006 (first published 30 January 1990)
  • Publish Status Out of Stock
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Northwestern University Press
  • Edition New edition
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 189
  • Language English