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The Gallery

The Gallery Softcover - 2004

by BURNS, John Horne

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New York: New York Review Books, 2004. Softcover. Fine. Reprint. Introduction by Paul Fussell. Trade paperback. Fine. Depicts life in Allied-occupied Naples, Italy, in 1944 from the perspective of several different characters.
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  • Title The Gallery
  • Author BURNS, John Horne
  • Binding Softcover
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - Fine
  • Pages 342
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher New York Review Books, New York
  • Date 2004
  • Features Table of Contents
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 582924
  • ISBN 9781590170809 / 1590170806
  • Weight 0.82 lbs (0.37 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.06 x 5.2 x 0.78 in (20.47 x 13.21 x 1.98 cm)
  • Themes
    • Sex & Gender: Gay
    • Topical: Lgbt
  • Library of Congress subjects Gay men, War stories
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2004000089
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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From the publisher

John Horne Burns (1916-1953) attended Andover and Harvard and then served in military intelligence during World War II. He wrote two more novels after The Gallery—Lucifer With a Book and A Cry of Children—but both met with a cold critical reception. He drank himself to death in Florence while still in his thirties.

Paul Fussell (1924–2012) was the author of many books on war and twentieth-century culture, including The Great War and Modern Memory, which won the National Book Award. His memoir Doing Battle: The Making of a Skeptic chronicles the time he spent fighting with the 103rd infantry division in World War II.

Media reviews

"A book by an ex—soldier that deals with the Americans in Itlay and that displays unmistakable talent…Mr. Burns shows the novelist’s specific gift in a brilliant way." — Edmund Wilson

"Burns has a brilliant facility for reproducing the sights, sounds, color, feel, and smell of the places he has seen. He uses this to startling effect to recapture what many Americans beyond the frontiers of their antiseptic homeland for the first time found in exotic and warped war centers as Casablanca, Fedhala, Algiers, and of course the twisted and diseased Napoli itself." — William Hogan, San Francisco Chronicle

"An important novel of our time." — William McFee, New York Sun

"No one will ever forget this book: a story torn from impassioned experience of modern wars in a shattered city of the ancient world. The Gallery is unique, unsparing, immediate; inextinguishable." — Shirley Hazzard

Citations

  • Lambda Book Report, 06/01/2004, Page 36

About the author

John Horne Burns (1916-1953) attended Andover and Harvard and then served in military intelligence during World War II. He wrote two more novels after The Gallery--Lucifer With a Book and A Cry of Children--but both met with a cold critical reception. He drank himself to death in Florence while still in his thirties.

Paul Fussell (1924-2012) was the author of many books on war and twentieth-century culture, including The Great War and Modern Memory, which won the National Book Award. His memoir Doing Battle: The Making of a Skeptic chronicles the time he spent fighting with the 103rd infantry division in World War II.

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