![]() Open Road will release nine other books by James Jones, including ‘The Ice Cream Headache,’ a collection of short stories, and the never-published book, ‘To the End of the War. ![]() ![]() The two books offer many analogies: -fearless realism in depicting men in the armed forces, their thoughts, their conversation, their emotions, their brute natures. The publication of an uncensored version as an e-book shows one of the ways that e-books can add to the cultural conversation - a new print edition with these small yet telling bits restored might never have happened. A controversial reception is a safe prediction for this already heralded first novel that and a wide market along the lines of The Naked and The Dead. Though many books from the 1950s have gone out of print, ‘From Here to Eternity’ has escaped that fate. In one, Private Maggio (the character played in the film by Sinatra) mentions having oral sex with a man for money - the kind of detail that must have been very difficult for an author to let go. The World War II Trilogy: From Here to Eternity, The Thin Red Line, and Whistle by James Jones 4. ![]() In addition to the four-letter words, scenes that explicitly mention gay sex have been restored to the text. Set in 1941, the third year of World War II, it follows several officers of the. ![]() The publisher was concerned about getting through the censors.’ From Here to Eternity is a 1951 war novel by American author James Jones. “My father fought bitterly to hold on to every four-letter word in the manuscript. ‘It’s been on my mind for quite a few years, and the right moment just hadn’t come up yet,’ Kaylie Jones told the New York Times. ![]()
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