The Ice-Cream Headache: and Other Stories

Description

From Here to Eternity and Thin Red Line, both wartime novels (and major motion pictures!), established Jones as one of the greatest writers of 20th-century America. This book presents thirteen penetratingly sensitive, remarkably varied stories (out of print for more than 15 years) about men, women and children ranging from war to marriage to childhood to courtship, and with a brand new introduction by daughter Kaylie Jones.

James Jones became internationally famous with his first novel, a classic portrayal of army life in World War II which won the National Book Award and an even more famous movie starring Burt Lancaster, Montgomery Clift, Deborah Kerr and Frank Sinatra. Kaylie Jones is the daughter of James Jones and author of four novels including A Soldier's Dughter Never Cries (also made into a major film) and Celeste Ascending.

"Superbly realised...Personal, vigorous, meaningful." - Library Journal "The thirteen stories are anything but dated...a compact social history of what it was like for a generation to grow up, go to war, and to become people in America." - The Nation