Some Came Running

Some Came Running

<DIV><a><B>James Jones€s saga of life in the American Midwest, newly revised five decades after it was first published and including a new foreword by his daughter, Kaylie Jones</B><BR /><BR /> After the blockbuster international success of <I>From Here to Eternity</I>, James Jones retreated from public life, making his home at the Handy Writers€ Colony in Illinois. His goal was to write something larger than a war novel, and the result, six years in the making, was <I>Some Came Running</I>, a stirring portrait of small-town life in the American Midwest at a time when our country and its people were striving to find their place in the new postwar world.</DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV>Five decades later, it has been revised and reedited under the direction of the Jones estate to allow for a leaner, tighter read. The result is the masterpiece Jones intended: a tale whose brutal honesty is as shocking now as on the day it was first published.</DIV><DIV> </DIV><DIV>This ebook features an illustrated biography of James Jones including rare photos from the author€s estate.</DIV>