By Frank Schaeffer

On Sale: Dec 15, 2003
Page Count: 272 pages
Publisher: Da Capo
ISBN-13: 9780786713080

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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 Weekly

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Frank Schaeffer is the author of two novels, Saving Grandma and Portofino, the latter of which has sold 100,000 copies in cloth and paper, and been translated into seven languages. Corporal John Schaeffer is currently deployed in the Middle East.

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Frank Schaeffer is the author of the New York Times bestseller Keeping Faith and the memoir Crazy for God. His novels, including Portofino, have been translated into nine languages. He lives in Massachusetts.

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About the Author Frank Schaeffer is the author of two novels, Saving Grandma and Portofino, the latter of which has sold 100,000 copies in cloth and paper, and been translated into seven languages. Corporal John Schaeffer is currently deployed in the Middle East.

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