![]() ![]() It ends when he is in is in his thirties. This episodic novel starts when Teddy is eleven and lives in California on an Army base. He was trying to take the typewriter to pay off debts, but the book does portray him as a spendthrift with a car he could not afford.īennett, James Gordon. Unlike the parents in many of these books Thomas’s father was enlisted and money problems are a big issue. ![]() Only the first approximately fifth of the book deals directly with Thomas’s life as a military child but much of the rest of the story stems directly from his father’s misdeed and the harsh punishment the Air Force gave him. Thomas is looking back at his life and writing this from the perspective of a divorced man in his forties and sometimes the commentary of the older man is distracting. Thomas grew up in a Air Force family until he was seventeen and his father was sent to jail for stealing a typewriter. My Father’s Geisha by James Gordon Bennettīausch, Richard. ![]()
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