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FROM HERE TO ETERNITY
James Jones
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Description for FROM HERE TO ETERNITY
Paperback. Prew won't conform. He could have been the best boxer and the best bugler in his division, but he chooses the life of a straight soldier in Hawaii under the fierce tutelage of Sergeant Milt Warden. When he refuses to box for his company for mysterious reasons, he is given 'The Treatment', a relentless campaign of physical and mental abuse. Series: Penguin Modern Classics. Num Pages: 976 pages. BIC Classification: FJMS. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 131 x 43. Weight in Grams: 664.
'I'll never understand the fucking Army.' Prew won't conform. He could have been the best boxer and the best bugler in his division, but he chooses the life of a straight soldier in Hawaii under the fierce tutelage of Sergeant Milt Warden. When he refuses to box for his company for mysterious reasons, he is given 'The Treatment', a relentless campaign of physical and mental abuse. Meanwhile, Warden wages his own campaign against authority by seducing the Captain's wife Karen - just because he can. Both men are bound to the Army, even though it may destroy them. Published here in its uncensored, original version, From Here to Eternity is a raw, electrifying account of the soldier's life in the months leading up to Pearl Harbor-of men who are trained to fight the enemy, but cannot resist fighting each other.
Product Details
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd
Number of pages
976
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Series
Penguin Modern Classics
Condition
New
Number of Pages
976
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780141393223
SKU
V9780141393223
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Ref
99-98
About James Jones
James Jones (1921-1977) was born in Robinson, Illinois and enlisted in the US army in 1939, serving in the 25th Infantry Division in Hawaii during Pearl Harbor and later in Guadalcanal in the Pacfic, where he was wounded in action. He is the author of many acclaimed novels, including the National Book Award-winner From Here to Eternity and the classic of combat literature, The Thin Red Line.
Reviews for FROM HERE TO ETERNITY
From Here to Eternity has fine qualities in abundance... No novel had so vividly - and shockingly, to a civilian readership - conveyed the brutality of peacetime army life
Times Literary Supplement
Certain places seem to exist mainly because someone has written about them. Kilimanjaro belongs to Ernest Hemingway. Oxford, Mississippi belongs to William Faulkner ... A great deal of Honolulu itself has always belonged for me to James Jones
Joan Didion
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
Ferocious... the most realistic and forceful novel I've read about life in the army
The New Yorker
Extraordinary and utterly irresistable ... a compelling and compassionate story
Los Angeles Times
The achievement of an exceptional novelist... Filled with a wide range of human emotions, with humour and nobility, with rage and love, with savagery and tenderness
New York Herald Tribune
A blockbuster of a book... raw and brutal and angry
The New York Times
Times Literary Supplement
Certain places seem to exist mainly because someone has written about them. Kilimanjaro belongs to Ernest Hemingway. Oxford, Mississippi belongs to William Faulkner ... A great deal of Honolulu itself has always belonged for me to James Jones
Joan Didion
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
Ferocious... the most realistic and forceful novel I've read about life in the army
The New Yorker
Extraordinary and utterly irresistable ... a compelling and compassionate story
Los Angeles Times
The achievement of an exceptional novelist... Filled with a wide range of human emotions, with humour and nobility, with rage and love, with savagery and tenderness
New York Herald Tribune
A blockbuster of a book... raw and brutal and angry
The New York Times