Johnny Got His Gun

Author : Dalton Trumbo
Publisher : Kensington Publishing Corp.
ISBN 13 : 0806537604
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Johnny Got His Gun written by Dalton Trumbo and published by Kensington Publishing Corp.. This book was released on 2013-11-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Searing Portrayal Of War That Has Stunned And Galvanized Generations Of Readers An immediate bestseller upon its original publication in 1939, Dalton Trumbo?s stark, profoundly troubling masterpiece about the horrors of World War I brilliantly crystallized the uncompromising brutality of war and became the most influential protest novel of the Vietnam era. Johnny Got His Gun is an undisputed classic of antiwar literature that?s as timely as ever. ?A terrifying book, of an extraordinary emotional intensity.?--The Washington Post "Powerful. . . an eye-opener." --Michael Moore "Mr. Trumbo sets this story down almost without pause or punctuation and with a fury amounting to eloquence."--The New York Times "A book that can never be forgotten by anyone who reads it."--Saturday Review

Author : Dalton Trumbo
Publisher : Citadel Press
ISBN 13 : 9780806512815
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Johnny Got His Gun written by Dalton Trumbo and published by Citadel Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First published in 1939 Dalton Trumbo's story of a young soldier horribly maimed in the First World War became an immediate best seller. The book also became the most popular anti war book of the Vietnam peace movement.

Author : Paul Suntup
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780998864914
Total Pages : 45 pages
Book Rating : 4.19/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Eyes of the Dragon Art Portfolio written by Paul Suntup and published by . This book was released on 2017-07-07 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This finely crafted art portfolio includes twenty-two black & white illustrations and two color illustrations by David Palladini. The artwork originally appeared in the trade edition of The Eyes of the Dragon by Stephen King. This edition includes an exclusive afterword by David Palladini which is letterpress printed. The lettered edition is limited to twenty-six copies and measures 12" x 18". The text and illustrations are printed on 100% cotton paper and are housed in a custom clamshell box covered in Japanese book cloth over wood boards. The edition includes a previously unpublished illustration as well as a reproduction of the only extant copy of the original title page illustration hand-colored by David Palladini. The lettered edition includes a signed limited photogravure print which has been hand-pulled on Somerset Velvet 100% cotton mould made paper with deckled edges from St. Cuthbert's Mill, England. The portfolio is signed by artist David Palladini.

Author : Joe R. Lansdale
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781596067172
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fender Lizards written by Joe R. Lansdale and published by . This book was released on 2015-11-30 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dot waitresses on roller skates at the Dairy Bob, doesn't care for smoking at least partly on account of her dad having never returned from a cigarette run, and carries on the family tradition of philosophizing. Life hasn't done her any favors in her seventeen years so far. But if there was ever a heroine built for turning things upside down and seeing what shakes out, it's Dot. Determined to find out who she is and why she's the way she is, an opportunity presents itself when her heretofore-unknown uncle suddenly moves his camper into the front yard.

Author : Antonia Hirsch
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780973813395
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Komma written by Antonia Hirsch and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The companion piece to a 16 mm film installation by the same title, Komma (After Dalton Trumbo's Johnny Got His Gun) is based on Hollywood scriptwriter Dalton Trumbo's seminal anti-war novel Johnny Got His Gun. As a modified facsimile of the original book's first edition, the project reimagines Trumbo's novel through its syntactical idiosyncrasy: the omission of all commas. The book includes an accompanying pamphlet with essays by Maria Muhle and Kristina Lee Podesva."--Publisher's website, viewed November 18, 2021.

Author : Larry Ceplair
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813146828
Total Pages : 716 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Dalton Trumbo written by Larry Ceplair and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2015-01-13 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: James Dalton Trumbo (1905--1976) is widely recognized for his work as a screenwriter, playwright, and author, but he is also remembered as one of the Hollywood Ten who opposed the House Un-American Activities Committee. Refusing to answer questions about his prior involvement with the Communist Party, Trumbo sacrificed a successful career in Hollywood to stand up for his rights and defend political freedom. In Dalton Trumbo, authors Larry Ceplair and Christopher Trumbo present their extensive research on the famed writer, detailing his work, his membership in the Communist Party, his long campaign against censorship during the domestic cold war, his ten-month prison sentence for contempt of Congress, and his thirteen-year struggle to break the blacklist. The blacklist ended for Trumbo in 1960, when he received screen credits for Exodus and Spartacus. Just before his death, he received a long-delayed Academy Award for The Brave One, and in 1993, he was posthumously given an Academy Award for Roman Holiday (1953). This comprehensive biography provides insights into the many notable people with whom Trumbo worked, including Stanley Kubrick, Otto Preminger, and Kirk Douglas, and offers a fascinating look at the life of one of Hollywood's most prominent screenwriters and his battle against persecution.

Author : Elliot Ackerman
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 1101971568
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Waiting for Eden written by Elliot Ackerman and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-09-03 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Patiently, and unflinchingly, Ackerman is becoming one of the great poet laureates of America’s tragic adventurism across the globe.” —Pico Iyer Eden lies in a hospital bed, unable to move or speak. His wife Mary spends every day on the sofa in his room. We see them through the eyes of Eden’s best friend, a fellow Marine who didn’t make it back home—and who must relive the secrets held between all three of them as he waits for Eden to finally, mercifully die and join him in whatever comes after. A breathtakingly spare and shattering novel that explores the unseen aftereffects—and unacknowledged casualties—of war, Waiting for Eden is a piercingly insightful, deeply felt meditation on loyalty, friendship, betrayal, and love. “The Tim O’Brien of our era.” —Vogue “Devastating.” —The Wall Street Journal “Haunting. . . . Daring.” —The Boston Globe “Heart-wrenching.” —NPR

Author : Don Carpenter
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1590173902
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hard Rain Falling written by Don Carpenter and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2010-06-23 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hardboiled novel about life in the American underground, from the pool halls of Portland to the cells of San Quentin. Simply one of the finest books ever written about being down on your luck. Don Carpenter’s Hard Rain Falling is a tough-as-nails account of being down and out, but never down for good—a Dostoyevskian tale of crime, punishment, and the pursuit of an ever-elusive redemption. The novel follows the adventures of Jack Levitt, an orphaned teenager living off his wits in the fleabag hotels and seedy pool halls of Portland, Oregon. Jack befriends Billy Lancing, a young black runaway and pool hustler extraordinaire. A heist gone wrong gets Jack sent to reform school, from which he emerges embittered by abuse and solitary confinement. In the meantime Billy has joined the middle class—married, fathered a son, acquired a business and a mistress. But neither Jack nor Billy can escape their troubled pasts, and they will meet again in San Quentin before their strange double drama comes to a violent and revelatory end.

Author : William March
Publisher : University of Alabama Press
ISBN 13 : 0817304800
Total Pages : 287 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Company K written by William March and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 1989 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of short first-person narratives by the members of a company caught in the frontline in the first World War.

Author : Giacomo Donis
Publisher : eBook Partnership
ISBN 13 : 1839782560
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.65/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Empty Shield written by Giacomo Donis and published by eBook Partnership. This book was released on 2021-05-20 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A people's history and the horror of war: Howard Zinn meets Apocalypse Now. Political autobiography. March 1972, about to graduate from NYU. A journey: two days and nights in the New York subway. Love it or leave it. A decision: become a Great Academic Marxist; blow up the Williamsburg Bridge; go into exile. Vietnam Veterans with placards, for and against the war. Seven placard-men at the seven gates of Thebes, brandishing their shields. A decision. Political or personal? Or pure Zen? Mind or no-mind? Kill for peace! Dylan, Hendrix, or the Fugs. The two Suzukis, or Dogen. Monk and Coltrane! The relation between Hegel's logic of thinking as such and his logic of practice, which does not exist. The screech of the subway stops. A fork where three roads cross, the realm of shadows, what is to be done? A Chinese menu? Stab it! Stab it with your fork! But what I, myself, decide is not the point. The point is the question of 'what a decision is and what making a decision means.' The answer is 'never stop asking.' Ask yourself. Ask FDR, JFK, LBJ, McNamara and his band, John Kerry, or a Vietnam War veteran of your choice. Ask Nixon, Kissinger-Trump! Ask Trump! Ye great decision-makers, have you ever asked yourselves what a decision is and what making a decision means! That is the question. The Empty Shield asks it. Repeatedly, repetitiously, abysally, and, possibly, once and for all.