- National Book Award Winner, Fiction, war & military, Fiction, psychological, United states, fiction
Diamond Head, Hawaii, 1941. Pvt. Robert E. Lee Prewitt is a champion welterweight and a fine bugler. But when he refuses to join the company's boxing team, he gets "the treatment" that may break him or kill him.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and overwhelming.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- cooloverwhelming
- warmbleak
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- Author
- James Jones
- First published
- 1952
- Pages
- 829
- Publisher
- Collins, Easton Press, N. Y.: Signet Books, 1954
- Editions
- 60
- Language
- Dutch, Italian, German, French
- ISBN
- 9780141393223
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“When he finished packing, he walked out on to the third-floor porch of the barracks brushing the dust from his hands, a very neat and deceptively slim young man in the summer khakis that were still early morning fresh.”
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