- Korean War, 1950-1953, Fiction, United States Navy, Korean War
In a field three miles from a village, Brubaker lay hiding in a rice paddy. What was he doing here, he wondered. Why wasn't he at home in Denver tending to his law practice, having dinner with his wife and daughters. He looked up and saw the enemy soldiers closing in...
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and bleak.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- warmbleak
- intimateepic
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- Author
- James A. Michener
- First published
- 1953
- Pages
- 136
- Publisher
- A Fawcett Crest Book, BANTAM BOOKS, Secker & Warburg
- Editions
- 40
- Language
- English, German, dan
- ISBN
- 9780860436744
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**James A. Michener** was born in 1907 and raised by a Quaker woman in Pennsylvania. During World War II he served with the U.S. Navy and traveled across the Pacific. His *Tales of the South Pacific* won the Pulitzer Prize in 1947. He lived with his wife in Austin, Texas. He was director of the Texas Center for Writers at the University of Texas.
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