Johnny Got His Gun
Publisher: Citadel
Published: July 1, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780806528472
Subjects: First World War fiction; 20th Century American Novel And Short Story; Fiction; Fiction - General; English; Literature: Classics; USA; Literary; Fiction / General; Classics; War & Military
Description: Publishers Weekly: This audio edition of Trumbo's classic 1939 novel of war's insanity begins as a bit of a slog because of the lengthy padding at its start. With two introductions, from Cindy Sheehan and Ron Kovic, that attempt to place the novel in the context of more recent armed conflicts in both Iraq and Vietnam, it is the better part of a disc before the book properly begins. Once it does, though, the slog ceases. Trumbo's novel is spine-tingling in its immediacy and horror, and William Dufris (while occasionally fumbling around in his bag of voices) mostly gives the words room to breathe. For this book, little more is necessary.