Publication

1945 - Coward-McCann, Inc., New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

67,000 words, Guess

Page Count

268 pages

Physical Format

Hardcover

Identifiers

Classifications

  • DDC811.5
  • LCCPS3521.A47 G6

Description

Three discharged servicemen, honorably for medical reasons, struggle to re-adjust to "normal life" in the same town, in the last days of WWII, and its challenge to the comradeship of shared danger and sacrifice that they knew as soldiers. A national epic, told in the language of the common man, in the language of the poet; told only as America could tell it. blue cloth hardcover title on spine in powder blue rectangle with gold leaf

First Sentence

"Fred Derry, twenty-one, and killer of a hundred men, walked on the width of Welburn Field. The cargo ship had set him down in noontime haze of early spring. He smelled the onion farms; He heard the trucks in Highway 52. He saw the signboards, and the ugliness that was a beauty he had dreamed."

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Glory for meHardcoverCoward-McCann, Inc.1945-01-01

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