I was sitting in Rick's, a bar on Main Street in Bridgehampton, talking with Rick and a couple of the potato farmers about baseball.
An edition of James Jones
(1978)
James Jones
a friendship
Illini books ed.
by Willie Morris
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"Willie Morris gives us a finely tuned, funny, and heartrending elegy to his friend, James Jones, whose novels From Here to Eternity and The Thin Red Line immortalized the experiences of a whole generation of World War II victims and survivors."--BOOK JACKET.
"Morris, a former editor of Harper's and a prolific author in his own right, sketches the pivotal events of Jones's life as well as small but defining moments of intimacy and compassion. Interweaving recollections by Jones's colleagues, such as Irwin Shaw and William Styron, and his editors, Maxwell Perkins and Burroughs Mitchell, Morris spins out Jones's experiences in the wartime Pacific, his storybook marriage, his self-imposed exile in Paris, and his return to East Hampton, Long Island.
He also recounts Jones's race against the clock to finish Whistle, the culmination of his World War II trilogy, which Morris himself completed after his friend's death in 1977."--BOOK JACKET.
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Originally published: New York : Doubleday & Co., 1978.
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