Bøger af T. R. Healy

Hours Dreadful and Things Strange is a personal account of the making of an American soldier. It describes in vivid detail what it was like for a recruit to go through Basic Combat Training at Fort Polk, Louisiana during the era of the Vietnam War.

True Distance is a collection of essays by a long distance runner about his impressions of running on tracks and roads and hills and beaches in the Pacific Northwest and numerous other places.

As Jess and his wife Alma begin their life together in a nameless 1950s Pacific Northwest town, they unhesitatingly descend, with defiant passivity, into every major and minor pitfall that family life and bleak social conformity can offer-from adultery and petty shoplifting to being pressured by neighbors to dig a hole for a "Heritage Pole."