Stated First Bard printing. UNREAD, very tight, square, unmarked copy. Tight spine, faint 2" crease toward spine bottom. Very clean wrappers. Tiny spots of minimal wear to wrapper edges, Pages are not brittle but edges have tanned with age. Page 115 has 1/4" crease at tip. SEE PHOTOS

Lucifer with a Book (Bard Book)

Burns, John Horne

Bard

Set in occupied Naples in 1944, The Gallery takes its name from the Galleria Umberto, a bombed-out arcade where soldiers and civilians come together in pursuit of food, drink, sex, money, and oblivion. One of the first to look directly at gay life in the military, The Gallery surveys the devastated world left behind by what Paul Fussell calls "the worst war in history."

The Gallery

Literature & Fiction

Genre Fiction

Avon/Books

GALLERY

The Hogarth Press Ltd.

Dramatizes the experiences of American soldiers during World War II and their relationships with civilians in the war zones

The Gallery (The Arbor House Library of Contemporary Americana)

United States

Arbor House Pub. Co

"The first book of real magnitude to come out of the last war." —John Dos Passos
John Horne Burns brought The Gallery back from World War II, and on publication in 1947 it became a critically-acclaimed bestseller. However, Burns's early death at the age of 36 led to the subsequent neglect of this searching book, which captures the shock the war dealt to the preconceptions and ideals of the victorious Americans.
Set in occupied Naples in 1944, The Gallery takes its name from the Galleria Umberto, a bombed-out arcade where everybody in town comes together in pursuit of food, drink, sex, money, and oblivion. A daring and enduring novel—one of the first to look directly at gay life in the military—The Gallery poignantly conveys the mixed feelings of the men and women who fought the war that made America a superpower.

The Gallery (New York Review Books Classics)

NYRB Classics

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