New York. 1997. January 1997. Signet/New American Library. 1st Signet Classic

New York. 1997. January 1997. Signet/New American Library. 1st Signet Classic Paperback Edition. Very Good in Worn Wrappers. 0451526457. Introduction By Daniel Pizer. 416 pages. paperback. CE2645. keywords: Signet Classic Paperback. FROM THE PUBLISHER-Drawing on his experience as an ambulance driver during World War I, John Dos Passos wrote his controversial antiwar novel THREE SOLDIERS in 1921 at age twenty-five. His brutally realistic narrative follows the fats of three soldiers-Dan Fuselli from San Francisco, Indiana farm boy 'Chris' Chrisfield, and classical musician John Andrews. Representing a cross-section of class, personalities, and American regions, the recruits find themselves in an army that crushes their humanity with institutional regimentation. The results are tragic-one man's disillusionment, another's desertion, and the third man's act of murder. War is hell, but to Dos Passos, social organization is just as deadly. A Daring and hard-edged early work, THREE SOLDIERS already contains the great themes developed in Dos Passos' later three-volume masterpiece, U.S.A. The direction of his literary genius, like a moral compass, never wavers from his concern for the individual and the spirit's need to be free. inventory #31223.