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Some Came Running

A Novel

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Some Came Running

By: James Jones
Narrated by: Dick Hill
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James Jones’s saga of life in the American Midwest, newly revised five decades after it was first published

After the blockbuster international success of From Here to Eternity, James Jones retreated from public life, making his home at the Handy Writers’ Colony in Illinois. His goal was to write something larger than a war novel, and the result, six years in the making, was Some Came Running, a stirring portrait of small-town life in the American Midwest at a time when our country and its people were striving to find their place in the new postwar world.

Five decades later, it has been revised and reedited under the direction of the Jones estate to allow for a leaner, tighter listen. The result is the masterpiece Jones intended: a tale whose brutal honesty is as shocking now as on the day it was first published.

©1958 James Jones (P)2013 Audible, Inc. Fiction Genre Fiction Historical Fiction Literary Fiction Small Town & Rural War & Military Military
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I just couldn't stop listening until the end. as unbelievable and sad as it is I think most men really do think that way.

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