The Merry Month of May Paperback by James Jones

Product Details

• Publisher: Akashic Books, Ltd. (2004-05-04)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 298 pages
• ISBN-13: 9781888451450
• Item Weight: 368.55 grams
• Dimensions: 0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 cm

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.

About the Author

James Jones (1921–1977), one of the major novelists of his generation, is known primarily as the author of fiction that probes the effects of World War II on the individual soldier. Born in Robinson, Illinois, Jones entered the U.S. Army and had the distinction of being the only individual who would become a major writer to witness the attack by the Japanese on Pearl Harbor. A member of the U.S. 27th Infantry Regiment, Jones was wounded at Guadalcanal and returned to Robinson, where he started to write about his experiences. After shelving his unpublished first novel, They Shall Inherit the Laughter, Jones completed the critically acclaimed international bestseller From Here to Eternity. Jones’s other novels are Some Came Running, The Pistol, The Thin Red Line, A Touch of Danger, and Whistle.