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Books advanced search todays deals new releases amazon charts best. Better times than these, grooms first novel, explored his firsthand experience of the vietnam conflict where he served 196667. Better times than these, winston groom, 9780671522667, general. Groom, winston better times than these 1st edition 1st printing hardcover new york summit books 1978 first book by the author of forrest gump, a novel about vietnam. Oct 03, 2016 and i wrote my first book, called better times than these, and it did well and i was off and running. Groom wrote two more books about vietnam before he started the story that would make him. His book conversations with the enemy was nominated for a pulitzer prize. He coauthored conversations with the enemy, which was nominated for a 1984 pulitzer prize. And i wrote my first book, called better times than these, and it did well and i was off and running.
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Better times than these by winston groom 1978, hardcover. Open library is an initiative of the internet archive, a 501c3 nonprofit, building a digital library of internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Groom intruduces his readers to a variety of characters that are all to familiar to every vietnam vet from spudhead miter, the. Below is a list of winston grooms books in order of when they were first released. Jul 22, 2019 better times than these by winston groom, 1994, pocket books edition, in english. May contain limited notes, underlining or highlighting that does affect the text. We meet bravo company on the day they ship out from california and follow them through some heavy action. Why it took forrest gump author nearly 20 years to write a. An ambitious war novelvietnam, 1966that has its moments but misses in both large and small ways, mainly by being walleyed. Winston groom captures the essence of the viet nam war in this remarkable book. Admittedly an eclectic anachronism, groom asserted that he would stop writing and practice law when he stopped having fun.
Winston groom is the author of fourteen books, including forrest gump, better times than these, the prizewinning shrouds of glory, and conversations with the enemy, which was a pulitzer prize finalist. Better times than these by winston groom fantastic fiction. The story begins with bravo company, fourth battalion, seventh cavalry embarking from the states and heading across the pacific for the far east. Winston grooms novel forrest gump, the basis for the smash motion picture starring tom hanks, has won him resounding national acclaim. Billy kahn finds himself executive officer of bravo company, responsible for leading over 100 young men into combatand drawn into an impassable moral quagmire. This long foreword introduces us to a very large cast of stereotypes who speak fearlessly in some of the least accurate. Librarything is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers. After forrest gump became a bestseller, winston groom says he ran. As author winston groom reveals in this dramatic, heartrending account, the battle of shiloh would singlehandedly change the psyche of the military, politicians, and american peoplenorth and southabout what they had unleashed by creating a civil war. As you travel with these soldiers to viet nam and into battle, you feel all the. He has also written numerous nonfiction works, on diverse subjects including the.