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The Ice-Cream Headache
James Jones
其他書名
And Other Stories
出版
Open Road Media
, 2011-05-10
主題
Fiction / Short Stories (single author)
Fiction / Literary
ISBN
1453215646
9781453215647
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=ivJc7QAeKXAC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋
Short stories by the award-winning author of
From Here to Eternity
:
“One of the significant writers of his generation” (
The New York Times Book Review
).
In his introduction to this collection of sharply crafted short stories, James Jones compares novel writing to a long-term, chronic illness. Writing short stories, he says, is like a brief, intense fever: the kind that can kill or disappear in a matter of days. Although best known for epic war novels such as
From Here to Eternity
and
The Thin Red Line
, Jones also wrote short stories, and the ones in this volume burn with deadly intensity. Besides the expected stories of the soldier’s life, Jones gives us something surprising: five stories of childhood, tender and horrifying at the same time, inspired by his early life in the Depression-stricken Midwest. They and the other shorts in this volume are accompanied by author’s notes, which supplement Jones’s introduction, and a preface by his daughter, Kaylie Jones. This ebook features an illustrated biography of James Jones including rare photos from the author’s estate.