The End Of My Life
Vance Bourjaily
Stationed first in the Middle East and then in Italy, Skinner and his fellow American volunteers, Rod, Freak, and Benny, endure boredom, fear, and the exquisite frustration of following orders. They seek solace in their friendship with one another and in the debauched diversions available to men during wartime. But as the days and nights drag on, Skinner begins to drift away from his comrades–and from himself. Too late, he discovers that the path he has chosen leads only to tragedy.
Inspired by Vance Bourjaily’s experiences as an ambulance driver in the American Field Service and commissioned by legendary editor Maxwell Perkins, The End of My Life marked the arrival of a writer heralded by the New York Times as “a Dostoevsky of the generation that came of age in World War II.” Elegant, spare, and fiercely honest, this is a timeless portrait of the devastating effects of war on the human spirit.
Minor lesbian content.
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| Genre | Fiction; Gay Pulp Fiction; Checklist by Marion Zimmer Bradley |
| Copyright Date | 1947 |
| Publication Date | 1947 |
| Publisher | Scribner |
| Editor | Maxwell Perkins |
| Notes | book cover shown without jacket from AbeBooks |
| Language | English |
| Rating | NotRated |
| Editor | Maxwell Perkins |
| BookID | 3519 |
