Guard of Honor
Guard of Honor is a neglected masterpiece that stands comparison with the greatest novels of the Second World War--essayist Noel Perrin deemed it probably the best war novel of the twentieth century. James Gould Cozzens's Guard of Honor won the Pulitzer Prize in 1949. The novel balances a vast cast of intricately enmeshed characters as they react over the course of three tense days in September 1943 to a racial incident on a U.S. Army airbase in Florida. The reader is acutely aware of the war raging abroad and the effect it has had, or will have, on the multitude of servicemen who populate Cozzens's immense canvas. As Noel Perrin commented in…
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- ISBN: 978-0-15-637609-9
- EAN: 9780156376099
- Produktnummer: 34389935
- Verlag: Harcourt Brace & Co
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1964
- Seitenangabe: 640 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D3.8 cm 803 g
- Gewicht: 803
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JAMES GOULD COZZENS won the Pulitzer Prize for Guard of Honor. His other novels include The Just and the Unjust, By Love Possessed, Men and Brethren, and Morning, Noon, and Night.
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