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Johnny Got His Gun
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ISBN10: 0553274325
ISBN13: 9780553274325
Publisher: Bantam
Published: Mar 1 1984
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.29
Height: 0.72 Width: 4.20 Depth: 6.89
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780553274325
Publisher: Bantam
Published: Mar 1 1984
Pages: 256
Weight: 0.29
Height: 0.72 Width: 4.20 Depth: 6.89
Language: English
Mr. Trumbo sets this story down almost without pause or punctuation and with a fury accounting to eloquence.--The New York Times 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. Praise for Johnny Got His Gun
[It is] very hard to write about Johnny Got His Gun without being guilty of understatement or hysterics. It is a terrifying book, of an extraordinary emotional intensity.--Washington Post
An extraordinarily agitating book, passionate in its language, potent in its emotional effect, a novel that tells in unsparingly honest words what a wickedly gruesome business war is, and how wickedly wasteful. Johnny Got His Gun, full of horror and hurt, will be a terrific and vivid experience for anyone who reads it.--Boston Herald
It is hard to imagine a more persuasive argument for staying out of war than this smooth, savage, brilliant tale.--Chicago Daily News
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