"From the acclaimed and bestselling author of Hemingway's Boat, the profoundly moving story of his father's wartime service as a night fighter pilot, and the prices paid by him, and other soldiers, for their acts of selfless, patriotic sacrifice"-- Provided by publisher.

"This is a Borzoi Book published by Alfred A. Knopf."

Amarillo Goodbye -- Long Ago in Kentucky -- The Road to South Field on Iwo Jima (1) -- The Road to South Field on Iwo Jima (2) -- Clear Pictures -- Where Leo E Sat -- Eighty-Three Years Later, Not Quite to the Day -- Of James Dickey and My Father -- The Short Unhappy Life of "The Merry Widow" -- The Last Living Airman of the 549th -- June-July 1945 -- The All-American Life and Mysterious Death of Larry Garland (and the Crew of Black Widow #42-39426) -- "Sing Me Back Home Before I Die."