{"product_id":"guard-of-honor-a-novel-isbn-9780156376099","title":"Guard Of Honor: A Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Pulitzer Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\"Every major war. . . has produced at least one masterpiece. For the Civil War, it's \u003cem\u003eThe Red Badge of Courage\u003c\/em\u003e. For World War 1, A Farewell to Arms. As for World War II, there are numerous candidates. . . T\u003cem\u003ehe Naked and the Dead\u003c\/em\u003e,\u003cem\u003e Catch-22,\u003c\/em\u003e \u003cem\u003eThe Caine Mutiny\u003c\/em\u003e, maybe a James Jones—and then there is a book that I think will one day be recognized as better than any of these: James Gould Cozzens's \u003cem\u003eGuard of Honor\u003c\/em\u003e.\" —Noel Perrin, \u003cem\u003eWashington Post Book World\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA neglected masterpiece that stands comparison with the greatest novels of the Second World War\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJames Gould Cozzens's \u003cem\u003eGuard of Honor\u003c\/em\u003e won the Pulitzer Prize in 1949. The novel balances a vast cast of intricately enmeshed characters as they react over the course of three tense days in September 1943 to a racial incident on a U.S. Army airbase in Florida.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"No other American novelist of our time writes with such profound understanding of the wellsprings of human character and of the social pressures that help to form it,\" said Orville Prescott in \u003cem\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/em\u003e. \u003c\/p\u003e | \u003cp\u003e\"Every page of it gives the impression of a writer at the very top of his powers setting out to accomplish nothing less than his masterwork.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Wise, witty, technically brilliant, utterly engrossing.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eOrville Prescott, New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Every major war. . . has produced at least one masterpiece. For the Civil War, it's \u003cem\u003eThe Red Badge of Courage\u003c\/em\u003e. For World War I, \u003cem\u003eA Farewell to Arms\u003c\/em\u003e. As for World War II, there are numerous candidates. . . \u003cem\u003eThe Naked and the Dead\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eCatch 22\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eThe Caine Mutiny\u003c\/em\u003e, maybe a James Jones—and then there is a book that I thin, will one day be recognized as better than any of these: James Gould Cozzens' \u003cem\u003eGuard of Honor\u003c\/em\u003e.\" - \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNoel Perrin, Washington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harper Paperbacks","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44889892749541,"sku":"NP9780156376099","price":43.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/guard-of-honor-a-novel-isbn-9780156376099","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}