THEY DREAM OF HOME

The Story of Five Ex-Marines Faced with the Problems of Life and Love in a Civilian World

Niven Busch

VG--/Poor. Jacket is ratty (see photo); protected in mylar. Book has soiling to covers. Interior clean (except for cheap bookplates on front & rear endpages). (NY: D. Appleton and Co., 1944). First Edition. Wartime book published on cheap paper. 307 pages.

Written and published during the war by an editor of Time and the New Yorker, who was also a recognized novelist, this novel was based on the lives of three of his friends, Marines who had returned from the Pacific, badly wounded. The novel was praised by a number of the significant writers of the day, including C.S. Forester, James M. Cain, Gene Fowler, Andre Maurois and Richard Aldington.

"The five Marines did not know it but they were going home. For months they had lived and fought together in foxholes, jungles, and water-soaked beach-heads in the Southwest Pacific, and now they were going home.
~~ The adventures and hardships of these fighting men turned suddenly adrift in a world they had once known, and their efforts to recapture the pattern of their former lives, is the theme of Niven Busch's powerful new novel, They Dream of Home.
~~ The story centers around the youngest of them all, Cliff Harper -- a veteran at seventeen, trained to kill, suffering from a war-connected nervous disability, lonely and frightened. His first disastrous experiences at home and his final readjustment to normal life through the understanding of the girl he loves, are described with deep sympathy and feeling.
~~ There is Gunny, the old sergeant, veteran of many years' service, Matt Klein, the butcher, Billy Tabeshaw, an Indian whose scouting talents saved scores of lives, and the Negro Perry Kincheloe who will never walk again.
~~ Here is a dramatic presentation of the problems which will soon be facing millions of discharged American soldiers and their families. In this, his fourth book, Niven Busch has given us one of the most interesting novels of the year."

"It's a damn haunting book. I can't get it out of my mind . . . From now on everyone who counts will be looking at Busch as one of the potentially great writers of America." --C.S. Forester.

Scarce, especially in jacket. OUT OF PRINT.

$45.00