Johnny Got His Gun

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Johnny Got His Gun - Mass Market Paperbound

Johnny Got His Gun - Mass Market Paperbound

by Dalton Trumbo
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Book Overview

by Dalton Trumbo (Author)

"Trumbo sets this story down almost without pause or punctuation and with a fury accounting to eloquence."--The New York Times

This was no ordinary war. This was a war to make the world safe for democracy. And if democracy was made safe, then nothing else mattered--not the millions of dead bodies, nor the thousands of ruined lives. . . . This is no ordinary novel. This is a novel that never takes the easy way out: it is shocking, violent, terrifying, horrible, uncompromising, brutal, remorseless and gruesome . . . but so is war.

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This was no ordinary war. This was a war to make the world safe for democracy. And if democracy was made safe, then nothing else mattered--not the millions of dead bodies, nor the thousands of ruined lives...This is no ordinary novel. This is a novel that never takes the easy way out: it is shocking, violent, terrifying, horrible, uncompromising, brutal, remorseless and gruesome...but so is war.
Winner of the National Book Award

Author Biography

Dalton Trumbo was one of the most prolific and important literary figures of our time. His more than sixty screenplays include Spartacus, Exodus, Papillon, and the Academy Award-winning The Brave One. Johnny Got His Gun is the most highly acclaimed work of his remarkable career.

Number of Pages: 256
Dimensions: 0.72 x 6.89 x 4.2 IN
Publication Date: March 01, 1984
Accelerated Reader:
Quiz Name: Johnny Got His Gun
Interest Level: Upper Grades, 9-12
Reading Level: 5.9
Point Value: 11
ISBN9780553274325
Author Dalton Trumbo
PublisherBantam
GenreLiterature
FormatOther
PublishedMarch 1984
LanguageENG- English
Pages256
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceTeens & young adults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Fiction Literary Political War & Military

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Dalton Trumbo (December 9, 1905 - September 10, 1976) was among the most prolific and important literary figures of his time. One of the famous Hollywood Ten, he refused to testify about his alleged communist affiliations before the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1947. Blacklisted from the film industry and charged with contempt of Congress, he served an eleven-month prison sentence. Johnny Got His Gun, the most highly acclaimed work of Trumbo's extraordinary career, won a National Book award (then known as an American Book Sellers Award) in 1939. The idea for the novel came to Trumbo after he learned of a British soldier who was seriously injured during World War I. In 2015 the acclaimed film "Trumbo," starring Bryan Cranston, spurred renewed interest in the author's life and works.

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