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The gallery

by Burns, John Horne

fromArbor House library of contemporary Americana

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"The first book of real magnitude to come out of the last war."?John Dos Passos? John Horne Burns brought The Gallery? Set in occupied Naples in 1944, The GalleryThe Gallery poignantly conveys the mixed feelings of the men and women who fought the war that made America a superpo…

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My face for the world to see

by Hayes, Alfred

fromNew York Review Books classics

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My face for the world to see is set in Hollywood, where the tonic for anonymity is fame and you're only as real as your image. At a party, the narrator, a screenwriter, rescues a young woman who staggers with drunken determination into the Pacific. He is living far from his wife…