John Hersey
1) Hiroshima
Author
Language
English
Description
"An account of the dropping of an atomic bomb on Hiroshima in 1945, from the viewpoint of the people who lived through it."--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1943, the American Major Victor Joppolo finds himself the civil affairs officer-the mayor-of a small town in Sicily. Equipped with the rulebook, How to Bring American Democracy to Liberated Territories, he sets about bringing choices to a people whose every recent activity had been dictated. Asking them what the town needs most, he is answered: give the town back its spirit-a bell to replace the 700-year-old one that was melted down for bullets....
3) Blues
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
1987.
Language
English
Description
"Bluefish," writes the author, are "animated chopping machines. They will eat anything alive. They have stripped the toes from surfers in Florida. They can't not eat." Hersey weaves fact and legend around his subject, engaging the reader with juicy details of ocean life, philosophy, natural history, and the crises into which man has let his environment slide.
6) The wall
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Language
English
Description
The Wall tells the inspirational story of forty men and women who escape the dehumanizing horror of the Warsaw ghetto. John Hersey's novel documents the Warsaw ghetto both as a symbol of Nazi persecution and as a personal confrontation with cruelty, torture, starvation and humiliation.
13) Too far to walk
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
[1966]
Language
English
Description
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...
19) The war lover
Author
Series
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1959.
Language
English
Description
"War Lover follows Buzz Morrow, a pilot who glorifies war and his military duties. The author makes the point that wars exist precisely because there are men like Buzz who revel in them. At the same time, he also gives us a detailed account of a Flying Fortress crew based in England during WW II." --
20) White lotus
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1965.
Language
English
Description
"White Lotus tells of her enslavement as a girl of 15 when a yellow race overran Arizona and took her to an eastern country. An allegory with parallels to the Negro-white history in America." --
