The Gathering

Brown, Harry

Ballantine Books

Based on James Poe's Emmy Award winning drama. In the 58th Christmas of his life...Adam Thornton's life was ending. With only a little time left he called his family together--a family that hadn't been together since he walked out on them four years ago...His wife, strong, patient, ever-approving Kate: his cold, ambitious son; his liberated daughter; the younger girl who married "poorly"; the boy who fled to Canada rather than fight in Vietnam--teh family he had given nothing so much as his disapproval. He needed to see them all now. Not for their pity--he would try to keep his illness secret--but for a last try to mend broken fences, to put his work in order, and to discover that the end of a life can be the liveliest, more loving season of the heart.

With A Walk in the Sun, Harry Brown tells an understated yet gripping and realistic tale of the randomness and impersonal nature of combat. In the Allied landings at Salerno on the Italian peninsula during World War II, a fictional platoon loses its lieutenant and senior sergeant to enemy fire, regroups inland to decide what to do, and soon loses its next-senior NCO to battle fatigue. This short but intense novel follows the remaining members of the platoon as they attempt to ascertain their mission and carry it out based on the only guide they have, a map found on the lieutenant’s body. The day unfolds from there—as simple as a walk in the sun, as simple, really, as war sometimes is. Some make it, some don’t, and those who don’t aren’t always dead. Brown’s spare narration echoes the gritty realities his characters face and provides an unflinching portrayal of the uncertainty of war.

Walk in the Sun

Literature & Fiction

Action & Adventure

Random House]

A Walk in the Sun

Signet/New American Library

Signet

United States

Bison Books

Book helps understand energy in the industrial world.

Energy Analysis of 108 Industrial Processes

Engineering & Transportation

Hamel, Bernard B.

Hedman, Bruce A.

Koluch, Michael

Gajanana, Birar

Engineering

Lilburn, Georgia, U.S.A.: Fairmont Pr

Follows an infantry platoon during WWII as they hit the beach at Salerno and reach their objective, a farmhouse six miles inland

Carroll & Graf Pub.

A Walk in the Sun (A Critic's Choice Paperback)

Lorevan Publishing Inc

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. 
Harry Brown explores the composition, history, kinetic life, and the long deterioration of golf balls, which as it turns out may outlive their hitters by a thousand years, in places far beyond our reach. Golf balls embody our efforts to impose our will on the land, whether the local golf course or the Moon, but their unpredictable spin, bounce, and roll often defy our control. Despite their considerable technical refinements, golf balls reveal the futility of control. They inevitably disappear in plain sight and find their way into hazards. Golf balls play with people.
Harry Brown's short treatise on the golf ball serves up surprising lessons about the human desire to tame and control the landscape through technology. 
Object Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in the The Atlantic.

Golf Ball (Object Lessons)

History & Criticism

Bloomsbury Academic

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