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by: David Jones
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 823.912
EAN: 9781590170366
ISBN: 1590170369
Label: NYRB Classics
Manufacturer: NYRB Classics
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 232
Publication Date: 2003-03
Publisher: NYRB Classics
Release Date: July 31, 2003
Sales Rank: 270478
Studio: NYRB Classics
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'This writing has to do with some things I saw, felt, and was part of': with quiet modesty, David Jones begins a work that is among the most powerful imaginative efforts to grapple with the carnage of the First World War, a book celebrated by W.B. Yeats and T.S. Eliot as one of the masterpieces of modern literature. Fusing poetry and prose, gutter talk and high music, wartime terror and ancient myth, Jones, who served as an infantryman on the Western Front, presents a picture at once panoramic and intimate of a world of interminable waiting and unforeseen death. And yet throughout he remains alert to the flashes of humanity that light up the wasteland of war.
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