![]() ![]() It is about men who are at peace with the world and at war with themselves, about their rivalries, frustrations, hatesĪnd loneliness about their women about all the sutlers of virtue and camp-followers of vice that surround what is called, in peacetime, the Standing Army - an army, curiously enough, that always seems to be seated.Īll this and hell too, for the moral azimuth of the novel is straight down. Jones' novel, set at Schofield Barracks, Oahu, covers the years before and up through Pearl Harbor. To anyone who reads this immensely long and deeply convincing story of life in the peacetime army, it will be apparent that in James Jones an original and utterly honest talent has restoredĪmerican realism to a pre-eminent place in world literature. Is the work of a major new American novelist. ![]() When a book is as commanding in its narrative power and grasp of character as this one, it bears comparison with the very best that is being done in American fiction today. The New York Times: Book Review Search Articleįebruary 25, 1951: 'From Here to Eternity' by James Jones ![]()
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