About this title: The story of a soldier stationed on Oahu, in the years just before the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Private Robert E. Lee Prewitt is a member of the Standing Army, a bugler who played taps at Arlington. Essentially his own person, he must confront the Army's will to stamp out his individuality and turn him into someone he doesn't want to be.
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Edition: Reprint
Binding: Card Covers
Publisher: Fontana / Collins, London
Date Published: 1968
Description: Fair. Paperback. 12mo-over 6¾"-7¾" tall. Moderate wear/bumping to covers. Reading creases / scuffing to spine. No inscriptions, pages are toned but clean & sound. 829pp. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Signet Book
Date Published: 1969
ISBN-13:9780451019677ISBN:0451019679
Description: Fair. No dust jacket as issued. Nice soft cover, lightly read, shelf wear to cover, wear on edges of cover, 1" tear along bottom of spine on front cover, light water marks on edges, marks inside front cover, light creases on spine, light aging, stk ... Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Signet
Date Published: 1953
Description: Good. No dust jacket as issued. Nice soft cover, lightly read, shelf wear to cover, light creases on spine, bend on corners of cover, aging to pages, stk #2475m8. 821 p. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Scribner's Sons, New York
Date Published: 1951
Description: Good. No Jacket. Fiction. 16mo-over 5¾"-6¾" tall. 1951 Edition. Book in good condition for its age. Clean inside and a little soiled outside. Strong binding, feels like read a couple of times. Pages show moderate time yellowing. Covers in good shape, showing moderate time, and shelf wear. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: COLLINS
Date Published: 1952
Description: Published by Collins in 1952. Hardback without Dust jacket. Condition: Very Good. May show some slight signs of wear. Shipped from UK. Delivery is usually 2-3 working days from order by Royal Mail, International Delivery is by Airmail. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: THE NEW AMERICAN LIBRARY
Date Published: 1954
Description: Published by The New American Library in 1954. Paperback. Condition: Good. Used book but in Good Condition for sensible price. Few pages loose Shipped from UK. Delivery is usually 2-3 working days from order by Royal Mail, International Delivery is by Airmail. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Charles Scribner's Sons, New York
Date Published: 1951
Description: Fair. No dust jacket. The pages are clean, with no marks or tears. Spine is in good condition except for a wear tear on the upper end. A label has been taped to the outer cover so that the title is made readable. Satisfaction guaranteed or money back. 790 p.; 22 cm. One of the great books of the 20th century. read more
Binding: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: The New American Library
Date Published: 1964
Description: Fair. No Jacket. Book Curled, Binding Loose, Edges Worn, Spine Creased, Inside Covers Soiled, Spine Corners Torn, Text Is Unmarked, Reading Copy. read more
"Jones was clearly a fine writer, but he was in desperate need of a good editor. He's entirely too self-indulgent in this novel and he has clearly never met an adverb he didn't like. He often uses two adverbs in a row. He uses them liberally unsparingly. The self-indulgence comes from overly purple descriptions and an obnoxious habit of repeating himself for effect, but so much to the point of driving the reader crazy.
Nevertheless, this is a good look at the Army just before Pearl Harbor and a good editor would have made this novel fantastic."
"guess I'm on an american GI in WW2 kick. a bit long winded, 200 pages in he's still talking about day to day barrack life in Hawaii pre Pearl Harbor. I haven't ever seen the film, so I have no idea what to expect, which I think is probably better, but I'm looking forward to watching it when I'm done-I'm pretty sure the book is a lot dirtier than the movie... still haven't seen the movie, but they should remake it, not something I usually advocate, deals with some great issues like homosexual prostitution in the army which puts a whole new spin on 'don't ask, don't tell'"
"I was just asleep on my couch and had a dream about one of my students which was similar to the bit near the end where Prewitt tries to make it back to the base, and I woke up realizing I hadn't put this on my Goodreads.
This is great. It took me a little while to get into the story, and it was different from the film which I'd seen previously. After reading it I don't know at all why they got Deborah Kerr for that role. She filled it amazingly for how badly she seemed to me to be cast for it, but the difference in her character is indicitive of the difference between the book and the movie.
In the movie she's a buffing cloth, and in the book she's sand paper. And that's how this one was. Good book. Worth reading. I enjoyed the way Jones used language."
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