Classic Jones reissued, with a new preface by National Book Award–winner Larry Heinemann.
“Jones’s best novel after
From Here to Eternity
.” —
Denver Post
,
Publishers Weekly
Library Journal
, and others.
“The only one of my contemporaries who I felt had more talent than myself was James Jones. And he has also been the one writer of any time for whom I felt any love.” —Norman Mailer
Paris. May. 1968. This is the Paris of the barricaded boulevards; of rebelling students’ strongholds; of the literati; the sexual anarchists; the leftists—written chillingly of a time in French history that closely parallels what America went through in the late 1960s. As the Revolution sweeps across Paris, the reader sees, feels, smells, and fears all the turmoil that was the May revolt, the frightening social quicksand of 1968.