description: Published in the Modern Library for the first time -- a fiftieth-anniversary edition of this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the Second World War.James Gould Cozzens was one of America's most famous writers after the war. His best-known works are By Love Possessed (1957) and Guard of Honor (1948), a winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Of Guard of Honor; the biographer Edmund Morris has said, "I am not alone in believing it to be the finest American novel of World War II".Guard of Honor is a powerful and immensely accomplished novel. It balances a vast cast of intricately enmeshed characters as they react over the course of three almost unbearably tense days to a racial incident on a U.S. Air Force training base in Florida in September 1942. The reader is acutely aware of the war raging in Europe and the effect it has had, or will have, on the people we are presented with. As Noel Perrin commented in The Washington Post Book World, "There is material lot two or three hundred movies in Guard of Honor".Guard of Honor is a substantial achievement and a fine example of the novelist's craft.
language: English
title: This Side of Paradise
titlecomplete: This Side of Paradise
characters: Monsignor Thayer Darcy, Beatrice Blaine, Dick Humbird, Eleanor Savage, Clara Page, Kerry Holiday, Isabelle Borgé, Amory Blaine, Alec Connage, Tom D'Invilliers, Burne Holiday, Myra St. Clare, Rosalind Connage, Cecilia Connage
genres: 20th Century, Novels, Literature, Romance, Classics, Classic Literature, Historical Fiction, Fiction, Literary Fiction, American
ratings_count: 71876
places: Princeton, New Jersey, New Jersey, Maryland, Princeton University, New Jersey, Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, Minneapolis, Minnesota, New York City, New York
publisher: Easton Press