Johnny Got His Gun - Brossura

Trumbo, Dalton

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0806512814 ISBN 13: 9780806512815

Casa editrice: Kensington Publishing Corp., 1998

Riassunto

The story of a young boy and his tragic fate in World War I makes a statement on the horrors of war and a plea for peace

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L'autore:

Dalton Trumbo (December 9, 1905–September 10, 1976) was among the most prolific and important literary figures of his time. One of the famous Hollywood Ten, he refused to testify about his alleged communist affiliations before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947. Blacklisted from the film industry and charged with contempt of Congress, he served an 11-month prison sentence. Johnny Got His Gun, the most highly acclaimed work of Trumbo’s extraordinary career, won a National Book Award (then known as an American Book Sellers Award) in 1939. The idea for the novel came to Trumbo after he learned of a British soldier who was seriously injured during World War I. In 2015 the acclaimed film Trumbo, starring Bryan Cranston, spurred renewed interest in the author’s life and works.

Product Description:

This was no ordinary war. This was a war to make the world safe for democracy. And if democracy was made safe, then nothing else mattered--not the millions of dead bodies, nor the thousands of ruined lives...This is no ordinary novel. This is a novel that never takes the easy way out: it is shocking, violent, terrifying, horrible, uncompromising, brutal, remorseless and gruesome...but so is war.Winner of the National Book Award "Mr. Trumbo sets this story down almost without pause or punctuation and with a fury amounting to eloquence."-- "The New York Times" "It is hard to imaging a more persuasive argument for staying out of war than this smooth, savage, brilliant tale."-- "Chicago Daily News"

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Kensington Publishing Corp.
• Data di pubblicazione: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0806512814
• ISBN 13: 9780806512815
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Numero di pagine: 336