Johnny Got His Gun
A Novel
by Dalton Trumbo
Recommended by Cheryl Strayed and Michael Moore
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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books and Fiction.
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, br...
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Recommended by 3 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books and Fiction.
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Cheryl Strayed
“"Trumbo", starring Bryan Cranston, was 1 of the best films I saw this wk @ the TorontoFilmFestival. And "Johnny Got His Gun" is a great book | I came upon this book when I was about 14. It was about a reality that was so far from my own. And yet when I was this teenager, I really could feel like the power of narrative, the power of inhabiting the life of another human.”
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