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To the End of the War: Unpublished Stories de James Jones

To the End of the War: Unpublished Stories

Autor James Jones Editat de George Hendrick
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 30 sep 2011
Never-before-published fiction by one of the finest war authors of the twentieth century

In 1943, a young soldier named James Jones returned from the Pacific, lightly wounded and psychologically tormented by the horrors of Guadalcanal. When he was well enough to leave the hospital, he went AWOL rather than return to service, and began work on a novel of the World War II experience.
 
Jones’s AWOL period was brief, but he returned to the novel at war’s end, bringing him to the attention of Maxwell Perkins, the legendary editor of Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Thomas Wolfe. Jones would then go on to write From Here to Eternity, the National Book Awardߝwinning novel that catapulted him into the ranks of the literary elite.
 
Now, for the first time, Jones’s earliest writings are presented here, as a collection of stories about man and war, a testament to the great artist he was about to become.
 
This ebook features an illustrated biography of James Jones including rare photos from the author’s estate.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781453258231
ISBN-10: 145325823X
Pagini: 219
Dimensiuni: 141 x 217 x 14 mm
Greutate: 0.3 kg
Editura: Open Road Integrated Media LLC

Cuprins

Introduction: From They Shall Inherit the
Laughter to To the End of the War •  9
Over the Hill •  24
Night Train •  46
Back Home in Endymion •  68
Johnny Meets Sandy •  82
Surely Not the Red Cross •  106
Air Raid •  110
Wild Festivity in Evansville •  124
You Are AWOL •  144
Every Time I Drop an Egg . . . •  150
Stranger in a New Company •  158
Army Politics and Anti-Semitism •  170
He Was a Wop •  196
Notes for the Introduction •  204

Recenzii

“One of the significant writers of his generation.” —The New York Times Book Review
 
“Few men write as effectively about the American army as James Jones.” —Newsweek
 
“The only one of my contemporaries who I felt had more talent than myself was James Jones. And he has also been the only writer of any time for whom I felt any love.” —Norman Mailer

Notă biografică

James Jones (1921ߝ1977) was one of the most accomplished American authors of the World War II generation. He served in the U.S. Army from 1939 to 1945, and was present at the attack on Pearl Harbor as well as the battle for Guadalcanal, where he was decorated with a Purple Heart and Bronze Star. Jones’s experiences informed his epic novels From Here to Eternity and The Thin Red Line. His other works include Some Came Running, The Pistol, Go to the Widow-Maker, The Ice-Cream Headache and Other Stories, The Merry Month of May, A Touch of Danger, Whistle, and To the End of the War.

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Never-before-published fiction by one of the finest war authors of the twentieth century

In 1943, a young soldier named James Jones returned from the Pacific, lightly wounded and psychologically tormented by the horrors of Guadalcanal. When he was well enough to leave the hospital, he went AWOL rather than return to service, and began work on a novel of the World War II experience.
 
Jones’s AWOL period was brief, but he returned to the novel at war’s end, bringing him to the attention of Maxwell Perkins, the legendary editor of Fitzgerald, Hemingway, and Thomas Wolfe. Jones would then go on to write From Here to Eternity, the National Book Awardߝwinning novel that catapulted him into the ranks of the literary elite.
 
Now, for the first time, Jones’s earliest writings are presented here, as a collection of stories about man and war, a testament to the great artist he was about to become.