An edition of Old Man in a Baseball Cap (1999)

Old man in a baseball cap

a memoir of World War II

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An edition of Old Man in a Baseball Cap (1999)

Old man in a baseball cap

a memoir of World War II

1st ed.
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Crude and often nonsensical, these stories of Rochlin's WWII experiences were written as monologues for his one-man show. In his 70s, Rochlin, a former B-24 navigator, took a storytelling workshop with Spalding Gray, and this is the result. Noting that the older I get, the more I remember things that never happened, he tells eight tales of varying credibility and tastelessness. In the title story, Rochlin, nicknamed Rockets, bails out over Yugoslavia, suffering a fractured jaw and broken ribs. Rescued by partisans, he is, without explanation, cheerfully asked to execute three German prisoners. His only comment: It didn't take any courage, you just pulled a trigger.'' His escort for the 400-kilometer stroll back to Italy, the earthy Maruska, following dual bouts of diarrhea, asks, You think I no beautiful? I don't want to die virgin. Why don't you put your hand on my siski?'' Following the first night of fig-fig,'' he complained his hooey was on fire and it started to drip stuff.'' Several of Rochlin's stories involve a glamour boy'' pilot and the colonel he's discovered in bed with, “in that head-to-toe 69 position . . . Hell, I didn't even know guys did stuff like that.” When the pilot is killed, the inebriated, grieving colonel tries to rape Rockets; he fends him off and, with the local priests help, fixes him up with a gay portrait painter. In another, quite detailed piece, he assists in a drunken cesarean section on a 14-year-old girl. The final entry has him having sex with his uncle's wife, who later tells him how much she loves her husband and will never betray him.'' Huh? Perhaps as staged monologues, in Rochlin's voice, these at least have some semblance of believability and sense. Here, they come off as simply careless, pointless, and offensive.

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Old man in a baseball cap: a memoir of World War II
2000, Thorndike Press
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Old Man in a Baseball Cap: A Memoir of World War II
November 1, 2000, Harper Paperbacks
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Old Man in a Baseball Cap: A Memoir of World War II
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Old Man in a Baseball Cap: A Memoir of World War II
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Old man in a baseball cap: a memoir of World War II
1999, HarperCollinsPublishers
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1999, HarperCollinsPublishers
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New York
Genre
Biography.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
940.54/4973
Library of Congress
D790 .R645 1999

The Physical Object

Pagination
xiii, 146 p. ;
Number of pages
146

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OL35986M
Internet Archive
oldmaninbaseball00rochrich
ISBN 10
006019426X
LCCN
99021421
Library Thing
224933
Goodreads
4750100

First Sentence

"IN DECEMBER 1942, I FINISHED my cadet training, was commissioned a second lieu , and was ordered to Mather Field near Sacra , California, to meet the crew I was to be assigned to."

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