- World War, 1939-1945, Fiction, Guerre mondiale, 1939-1945, Fiction, historical
James Gould Cozzens was one of America's most famous writers after the Second World War. His Pulitzer Prize-winning novel GUARD OF HONOR balances a vast cast of intricately enmeshed characters as they react over the course of three tense days to a racial incident on a U.S. Air Force training base in Florida in 1942.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and prestige.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- unpretentiousprestige
- rawmeticulous
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- Author
- James Gould Cozzens
- First published
- 1948
- Pages
- 631
- Publisher
- "Raduga", Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, Franklin Library
- Editions
- 6
- Language
- Russian, English
- ISBN
- 9780156376099
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