Old Man in a Baseball Cap BY FRED ROCHLIN (1999)

This is a used, but very nice hardcover with dustjacket copy of Old Man in a Baseball Cap by Fred Rochlin (1999).

I recently acquired this book at a local estate sale. This book is in very good condition and the actual book is shown in the scan. The book is very clean and the dustjacket is in excellent condition.

Old Man in a Baseball Cap is a wonderful, hilarious, and haunting memoir. Written when Rochlin was seventy, after he took a storytelling workshop with Spalding Gray, it was originally performed as a monologue and was described by the New York Times as being "about an ordinary man in extraordinary circumstances, [it] has elements of an epic: love and death, honor and betrayal, vengefulness and martyrdom, and ultimately, the fortuitousness of survival."

In 1942 Fred Rochlin joined the Army Air Corps. After eight months of training, he was stationed in Italy, serving as the navigator on a B-24 bomber and flying missions over Germany. Fifty such missions were required for a successful tour of duty. This was the first time that Fred Rochlin had been away from home. He was nineteen years old.

Old Man in a Baseball Cap is an astonishingly fresh, candid look at "the last good war." At once naive and wise, Fred Rochlin's voice is unforgettable.

At turns riveting, frightening, touching, horrific, and hilarious, this one-of-a-kind autobiography recalls the extraordinary experiences of Fred Rochlin during World War II when he was a 19-year-old in a B-24 bombing Germany.
By turns riveting, frightening, touching, hilarious, and horrific, this one-of-a-kind autobiography--conceived originally in a seminar by Spaulding Gray--recalls the extraordinary experiences of Fred Rochlin as a 19-year-old soldier, bombing Germany during World War II. NPR syndicated feature.

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