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    The Last Detail
    The Last Detail
    The Last Detail
    Audiobook5 hours

    The Last Detail

    Written by Darryl Ponicsán

    Narrated by Bronson Pinchot

    4.5/5

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    About this audiobook

    The acclaimed novel that was the basis for the classic movie starring Jack Nicholson.

    Unlike other branches of the armed services, the Navy draws its police force from the ranks as temporary duty - Shore Patrol. In this funny, bawdy, moving audio-book set during the height of the Vietnam War, two career sailors in transit in Norfolk, Virginia - Billy "Bad-Ass" Buddusky and Mule Mulhall - are assigned to escort 18-year-old Larry Meadows from Norfolk to the brig in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, where he is to serve an eight-year sentence for petty theft. It's good duty, until the two old salts realize the injustice of the sentence and are oddly affected by the naive innocence of their young prisoner.

    In the five days allotted for the detail, they decide to show Meadows something of the life he doesn't yet know to help him survive the long ordeal ahead, and to purge their own shame.

    What follows is an unlikely road trip by bus and train up the eastern seaboard, and an indelible journey of initiation and discovery, filled with beer-soaked wisdom, big city lights, revelry, brawls, debauchery, love, and surprising moments of tenderness.

    An Author's Republic audio production.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNovel Audio
    Release dateSep 5, 2017
    ISBN9781518963742
    The Last Detail
    Author

    Darryl Ponicsán

    Darryl Ponicsán is the author of thirteen novels and is an award-winning screenwriter for both film and television. Born in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, he taught high school after attending Muhlenberg College and earning an MA at Cornell University. He served in the US Navy from 1962 to 1965, then did social work in the Watts area of Los Angeles and taught high school before the success of his debut novel, The Last Detail, allowed him to become a full-time writer. He resides in Palm Springs and Sonoma, California.

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      Couldn't put it down. Read it straight through! Great book