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Johnny Got His Gun - by Dalton Trumbo (Paperback)

Johnny Got His Gun - by  Dalton Trumbo (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"Published by arrangement with Lyle Smart, Inc."--T.p. verso.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>"Trumbo sets this story down almost without pause or punctuation and with a fury accounting to eloquence."--<i>The New York Times</i></b> <p/>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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"[It is] very hard to write about <i>Johnny Got His Gun</i> without being guilty of understatement or hysterics. It is a terrifying book, of an extraordinary emotional intensity."<b>--<i>Washington Post<br></i></b><br>"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. <i>Johnny Got His Gun, </i> full of horror and hurt, will be a terrific and vivid experience for anyone who reads it."<b>--<i>Boston Herald<br></i></b><br>"It is hard to imagine a more persuasive argument for staying out of war than this smooth, savage, brilliant tale."<b>--<i>Chicago Daily News</i></b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Dalton Trumbo</b> was one of the most prolific and important literary figures of our time. His more than sixty screenplays include <i>Spartacus</i>, <i> Exodus</i>, <i> Papillon</i>, and the Academy Award-winning <i>The Brave One</i>. <i>Johnny Got His Gun</i> is the most highly acclaimed work of his remarkable career.

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