To Reach Eternity: The Letters of James Jones

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Random House, 1989 - Biography & Autobiography - 380 pages
From combat experience through a controversial and impressive literary career, these letters--by the author of From Here to Eternity--are the raw material of a life that was transformed into some of the best fiction of a generation.

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THE COLONY YEARS 19501956
165
NEW YORK AND PARIS YEARS 19571974
251
THE FINAL YEARS 19741977
363
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About the author (1989)

James Jones was born in Robinson, Illinois on November 6, 1921. He was unable to afford college, so he enlisted in the Army in 1939. His experiences during World War II inspired his best-known works: From Here to Eternity, which won the National Book Award in 1952, The Thin Red Line, and Whistle. His other works include The Pistol, Go to the Widow-Maker, The Ice-Cream Headache and Other Stories, and The Merry Month of May. Many of his books were adapted into movies including From Here to Eternity, Some Came Running, and The Thin Red Line. He died of congestive heart failure on May 9, 1977.

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