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Jones, James Why Do People Suffer? Lion August 1993 1st Edition Hardcover Hardback no D/J in very good condition. 1st edition.The scandal of pain in God's World.About the AuthorBorn in Illinois, Jones was unable to afford college, so he enlisted in the Army in 1939. With the publication of Whistle (1978), it became apparent that Jones's main achievement was a trilogy of novels about U.S. Army life during World War II that may well stand among the best war fiction of all time. Jeffrey Helterman (Dictionary of Literary Biography) has said that Jones may well have ''produced an immense, vital trilogy on men at war which should earn him the place he had always wanted - to be the Thomas Wolfe of his generation.'' The same main characters appear in From Here to Eternity (1951), The Thin Red Line (1962), and Whistle, though their names are changed. The first novel of the trilogy, From Here to Eternity, which won the National Book Award, was a controversial bestseller that was made into one of the best movies of 1953. Jones's novel is a brutal, almost ugly, picture of the peacetime army in Hawaii until the attack on Pearl Harbor. The Thin Red Line describes the Guadalcanal campaign, while Whistle, which was edited by Willie Morris from a nearly completed manuscript, shows Mort Winch (''Milt Warden'' of From Here to Eternity) returning wounded to the United States with three of his men only to discover that neither the army nor their country has any significant place for them. Jones's other fiction is considered less successful. Some Came Running (1957) is an autobiographical novel about a veteran who returns to Illinois to write a war novel; it was condemned for its undisciplined length, verbal excesses, Price: 3.00 GBP
