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| Hiroshima by John Hersey “One of the great classics of the war" (The New Republic) that tells what happened in Hiroshima through the memories of survivors—from a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. On August 6, 1945, Hiroshima was destroyed by the first atom bomb ever dropped on a city. This book, John Hersey's journalistic masterpiece, tells what happened on... Today's Bargain Price: $6.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: Unknown | | |
| A Bell for Adano by John Hersey This classic novel and winner of the Pulitzer Prize tells the story of an Italian-American major in World War II who wins the love and admiration of the local townspeople when he searches for a replacement for the 700-year-old town bell that had been melted down for bullets by the fascists. Although stituated during one of the most... Today's Bargain Price: $12.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature | | |
| The War Lover: A Novel by John Hersey In the immediate sense, this long, eventful and agonizingly suspenseful novel shows what fear, secret hidden fear, can do to even one of those seeming heroes, a war lover. In the longer view, however, this may come to be regarded as the great and ultimate anti-war novel of our time. The scene is an American bomber base in... Today's Bargain Price: $9.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Historical Fiction; All Mystery, Crime & Thrillers | | |
| The Wall by John Hersey Riveting and compelling, The Wall tells the inspiring story of forty men and women who escape the dehumanizing horror of the Warsaw ghetto. John Hersey's novel documents the Warsaw ghetto both as an emblem of Nazi persecution and as a personal confrontation with torture, starvation, humiliation, and cruelty -- a gripping and visceral... Today's Bargain Price: $11.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature; All Historical Fiction; All Religious Fiction | | |
| A Single Pebble by John Hersey A young American engineer sent to China to inspect the unruly Yangtze River travels up through the river's gorges searching for dam sites. Pulled on a junk hauled by forty-odd trackers, he is carried, too, into the settled, ancient way of life of the people of the Yangtze -- until the interplay of his life with theirs comes to a dramatic... Today's Bargain Price: $9.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature | | |
| The Call: An American Missionary in China by John Hersey An American missionary in China, David Treadup, is the protagonist of John Hersey’s magnificent novel, a novel whose richness of character, color, and incident both explores the evangelical impulse in this country—the peculiarly American spirit of wanting to help others—and reflects the whole complex history of China from 1900 to the... Today's Bargain Price: $12.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature; All Historical Fiction; All Nonfiction | | |
| White Lotus by John Hersey Not too far from now, in a world very like our own, the oppressors have changed places with the oppressed. After their defeat in the Yellow War, the white people of America are thrust into a brutally altered reality. They are hunted like wild beasts and drive like cattle, transported in reeking ships and sold to their conquerors as... Today's Bargain Price: $6.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Nonfiction; All Science Fiction | | |
| The Child Buyer: A Novel by John Hersey An imaginary, utterly absorbing record of the investigations of the Committee on Education, Welfare, and Public Morality of an unnamed state senate into the activities of Mr. Wissey Jones, who has come to the town of Pequot on what he says is urgent defense business. The hearings develop the suspense of a bizarre trial. It soon... Today's Bargain Price: $5.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Humor; All Mystery, Crime & Thrillers; All Nonfiction | | |
| Under the Eye of the Storm: A Novel by John Hersey This is a tale of the sea, of two men and their wives on a sailboat, moving toward the heart of a great storm. It is an adventure story that carries four travelers on the yawl Harmony from Edgartown to Menemsha to Block Island and thence out into a huge, dark cone of uncertainty. In the modulating airs of the voyage four personalities... Today's Bargain Price: $7.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: Action and Adventure; All Mystery, Crime & Thrillers | | |
| My Petition For More Space: A Novel by John Hersey A street in New Haven. A line of people, blocks long, more closely packed than the rush-hour subways of the good old times. Poynter has been on the line since before dawn, as are thousands of others, pressed together, waiting their turns at the window to present their individual petitions. His is for more space—a notion so... Today's Bargain Price: $6.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Science Fiction | | |
| Key West Tales: Stories by John Hersey Alternating a tale of the past that has become a part of Key West legend with a contemporary story that reflects the pulse of life there today, Hersey weaves in these stories a brilliant human tapestry of the place that means a great deal to him. From the author of A Bell For Adano and Hiroshima comes this final collections of stories. Today's Bargain Price: $9.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature | | |
| Antonietta by John Hersey A saga of a magnificent violin, Antonietta, named after a beautiful woman who was the inspiration of Antonio Stradivari's later years. As Hersey brings Mozart, Berlioz, and Stravinsky to life, he offers us a marvelous celebration of the changing character and eternal art and power of music. Today's Bargain Price: $8.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature; All Historical Fiction | | |
| Here to Stay by John Hersey In Here to Stay John Hersey tells of episodes in the past twenty years in which Man has courageously risen above desperate situations and shown his determination to survive despite the threats of the nuclear age. Mr. Hersey first tells the story of an old lady marooned on a rooftop amidst floods caused by a hurricane. He... Today's Bargain Price: $15.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: Unknown | | |
| The President: A Minute-by-minute Account of a Week in the Life of Gerald Ford by John Hersey The President has given me permission to take a kind of voyage with him—to watch him closely through a working week….I will be with him, most of the time, hour in and hour out…. At 8:33 on a rainy Monday in March, 1975, John Hersey sits down on a straight cane-backed chair in the Oval Office to begin soaking up impressions of what... Today's Bargain Price: $14.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Biographies & Memoirs; All Politics, History and Current Events | | |
| Life Sketches by John Hersey This collection—harvest of a lifetime of brilliant reportage and reflection—brings together the most memorable biographical pieces John Hersey has written over the past fifty years. His subjects range from Sinclair Lewis, for whom the twenty-three-year-old Hersey was secretary, and the young John F. Kennedy as he related to Hersey the... Today's Bargain Price: $14.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Biographies & Memoirs; All Nonfiction | | |
| The Conspiracy: A Novel by John Hersey Nero’s secret police believe they have come on the first hints of a plot against the emperor’s life. Once promising and gifted—friend of poets, pupil of the great Seneca—Nero has now bloodied himself and grown fat on power, and he has turned his back on the men of intellect who used to be his chosen circle. He has driven Seneca into... Today's Bargain Price: $9.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Historical Fiction | | |
| Too Far to Walk: A Novel by John Hersey Is there anywhere a young man so dull he would not sell his soul for experience? In this striking new novel, quite different from anythign he has written before, John Hersey probes deeply, but with rich humor, into the aimlessness, boredom, and rebellion of a group of undergraduates in a New Englad college. In one of his remarkable... Today's Bargain Price: $12.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature; All Humor | | |
| Blues by John Hersey From the revered Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and writer, comes his National Bestseller on one of the world’s oldest and most popular activities, fishing. Presented in narrative form as a conversation between a Fisherman and the Stranger, Hersey draws upon his own experiences and passion as the fisherman reflects on the age old... Today's Bargain Price: $7.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Sports & Outdoors | | |
| The Marmot Drive: A Novel by John Hersey The Marmot Drive , a novel of extraordinary force and craftsmanship, deals with certain events on two summer days in an out-of-the-way Connecticut village. The occasion is the decision of the villagers of Tunxis to launch their long-debated drive to rid a nearby valley of an infestation of marmots.* But the drive is merely the catalyst.... Today's Bargain Price: $9.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: Unknown | | |
| Fling and Other Stories by John Hersey Writing in a new and different mode, John Hersey, who has enriched us with such memorable novels as A Bell for Adano and The Wall , now gives us his first collection of short stories. A superb and witty storyteller, he invents a variety of voices… A boy remembers his childhood summer on the North China sea and the typhoon... Today's Bargain Price: $11.99 Supports BookGorilla with Commissions Earned Categories: All Contemporary Fiction & Literature; All Nonfiction | | |
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