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John Hersey is the author of A Bell for Adano (1946), The Child Buyer (2018), Too Far to Walk (1966), Courage (1945), The Marmot Drive (1953), Prayer, Its Duties and Privileges.

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A Bell for Adano

A Bell for Adano
An Italian-American major, part of American occupation forces in Sicily during World War II, tries to reform the town in his charge by being decent to people. His efforts are epitomized by his efforts to replace the 700-year-old bell melted down for bullets by the fascists.

The Child Buyer

release date: Nov 10, 2018
The Child Buyer
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Too Far to Walk

Too Far to Walk
How could the devil be a sophomore? Well, he is and one night he clenched John Fist''s soul with a 26 week contract and an option to renew. The short novel is arranged in three books, which further suggests the morality play. John Fist, uncommitted, unshorn and thoroughly unkempt, is sunk in collegiate slobdom and cynicism at Sheldon College, a fictional cutting from the Ivy League. His descent to hell starts with a spiral of boredom and even Fist''s first venture with a whore fails to give him that old I-am-sold-to-the-devil excitement. Taking the whore home to mother for a weekend does not generate more than a minor row (the Fists are much too bourgeois to brawl about these lapses). Always awaiting some penultimate thrill, the unbelievably footling Fist ends book two as a phoney martyr, having been accidently arrested in a protest march at Sheldon. Book Three is a series of LSD nightmares that culminate in a very old fashioned devil''s dance (choreography straight out of the Encyclopedia of Witchcraft) where Fist reneges on his contract renewal by refusing to buss the devil''s bottom. Next morning, he decides his philosophy class, presided over by a dim, god-like old party, is really not too far to walk to.

The Marmot Drive

The Marmot Drive
Account of the revelation of the traits of the people of Tunxis when they decide to launch a community-wide drive to rid themselves of marmots.

Of Men And War

release date: Nov 06, 2015
Of Men And War
Find out how war smells, looks, and feels to fighting men—and how courage grows from their desperate will to live. In five true stories of World War II— • Survival • The Battle of the River • Nine Men on a Four-Man Raft • Borie''s Last Battle • Front Seats at Sea War —a famous war correspondent takes you aboard John F. Kennedy''s doomed PT-109...into the horror of Guadalcanal...onto a death raft in the Southwest Pacific.

Hiroshima. Il racconto di sei sopravvissuti

release date: Jan 01, 2005

De muur

release date: Jan 02, 2024
De muur
Dé klassieker over het getto van Warschau, geschreven door John Hersey, Pulitzer Prize-winnaar en auteur van Hiroshima De historische roman De muur speelt zich af in het getto van Warschau, waar in 1943 een deel van de Joodse bevolking zich organiseerde in een groots verzet tegen de SS. Hersey schrijft in dagboekvorm, geïnspireerd door documenten die zijn gevonden in Warschau, over de mensonterende omstandigheden in het getto en over hoe een paar honderd uitgehongerde mannen en vrouwen met geïmproviseerde wapens wisten te ontsnappen aan de nazi''s. Pijnlijk indringend zijn de beschrijvingen van de karakters van mensen die onder deze extreme omstandigheden moesten leven, sterken en zwakken, heldhaftigen en lafaards, fanatici en verraders. Hartverwarmend en ontroerend zijn de bewijzen van kameraadschap in dagen van uiterste nood. De muur is een aangrijpende roman over een van de meest schokkende episodes uit de Tweede Wereldoorlog. In de pers ''Alleen een échte romancier kan warmte, compassie en humor brengen in wat een historicus alleen maar had kunnen beschrijven als een grimmige, hopeloze, tragische reeks gebeurtenissen. Alleen een gevoelige schrijver kan ons overhalen mee te gaan in zo''n beangstigend avontuur en te blijven tot het einde.'' The New York Times ''Een aangrijpend, buitengewoon boek. De feiten, zoals overgeleverd uit authentieke bronnen, zijn van een dramatiek die het voorstellingsvermogen ver te boven gaat. Met ongeëvenaard vakmanschap heeft Hersey uit deze bronnen een vertelling geweven waarin de mensen zichtbaar worden, van vlees en bloed, in alle tinten zwart, wit en grijs van het echte leven. Een mijlpaal in de Amerikaanse literatuur.'' Kirkus Reviews ''Een heroïsch verhaal.'' The Atlantic

Hiroshima

release date: Jul 01, 2014
Hiroshima
Julia Alvarez grew up in the Dominican Republic before emigrating to the United States at the age of 10. She now lives in Vermont, where she is a writer-in-residence at Middlebury College. From the Hardcover edition.

La muraille

La muraille
Edition originale, 1950. Sous forme de journal, l''auteur écrit l''histoire du ghetto de Varsovie entre novembre 1939 et mai 1943. Il a consulté de nombreux documents, tant en polonais qu''en yiddish, sur cet épisode poignant de l''extermination systématique des Juifs par les nazis. Il met en valeur la riche spiritualité de certaines des victimes.
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