Johnny Got His Gun - Softcover

Trumbo, Dalton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 067171886X ISBN 13: 9780671718862

Publisher: Pocket Books, 1999

Synopsis

This is the moving story of a young soldier who awakes in a hospital bed to find himself armless, legless and faceless but with his mind intact. His desperate attempts to understand what has happened and to communicate, and his vivid, happy memories, are described with insight and poignancy.

About this title

Review:

"Mr. Trumbo sets this story down almost without pause or punctuation and with a fury amounting to eloquence."--"New York Times"
"It is hard to imaging a more persuasive argument for staying out of war than this smooth, savage, brilliant tale."--"Chicago Daily News"

From the Back Cover:

"Johnny Got His Gun" holds a place as one of the classic antiwar novels. First published in 1939, Dalton Trumbo's story of a young American soldier terribly maimed in World War I-- he "survives" armless, legless, and faceless, but with mind intact-- was an immediate bestseller. This fiercely moving novel was a rallying point for many Americans who came of age during World War II, and it became perhaps the most popular novel of protest during the Vietnam era.

Citadel Underground's edition of "Johnny Got His Gun" features a powerful new introduction by Ron Kovic, author of "Born on the Fourth of July", and also includes an introduction by Dalton Trumbo.

""Johnny Got His Gun" still remains the most powerful piece of writing to influence me after Vietnam. Upon my return from the war, and after all these twenty-two years spent in a wheelchair, paralyzed from the mid-chest down, I've read many writers that have influenced my life profoundly-- Hemingway, Conrad, Tolstoy, Gandhi, Dr. Martin Luther King-- but there has been nothing out of that body of great literature to compare to this book... "Johnny Got His Gun" remains the most revolutionary, searing document against was and injustice ever written." --Ron Kovic, from his introduction

"{This} is a terrifying book, of an extraordinary emotional intensity." --The Washington Post

""Johnny Got His Gun" is not merely a powerful antiwar document; it is also a powerful and brilliant work of the imagination... Mr. Trumbo has written a book that can never be forgotten by anyone who reads it." --Saturday Review

"A terrible story, remorseless, uncompromising... this book was a shocking and violent experience." --Herald Tribune

"There can be no question of the effectiveness of this book." --The New York Times

About this edition

• Publisher: Pocket Books
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 067171886X
• ISBN 13: 9780671718862
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336