- Fiction, History, Pulitzer Prize Winner, World War, 1939-1945
A story about an Italian-American army officer in Sicily during World War II, who tries to help the people of the town of Adano get a new town bell after the Fascists had the old one melted down.
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- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
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- Author
- John Hersey
- First published
- 1944
- Pages
- 269
- Publisher
- Franklin Library, Franklin Watts, F. Watts
- Editions
- 31
- Language
- English, Swedish
- ISBN
- 9780833502124
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“INVASION had come to the town of Adano.”
John Richard Hersey (June 17, 1914 – March 24, 1993) was an American writer and journalist. He is considered one of the earliest practitioners of the so-called New Journalism, in which storytelling techniques of fiction are adapted to non-fiction reportage. In 1999, *Hiroshima,* Hersey's account of the aftermath of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima, Japan, was adjudged the finest work of American journalism of the 20th century by a 36-member panel associated with New York University's journalism department. John Hersey was born in Tientsin, China, the son of missionaries. He returned to the United States with his family at the age of ten. He attended the Hotchkiss School, then Yale Univer
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