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Through the wheat : a novel of the World War I Marines / Thomas Boyd ; introduction to the Bison Books Edition by Edwin Howard Simmons.
Van Pelt Library PS3503.O9 T48 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Boyd, Thomas, 1898-1935.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- World War, 1914-1918--Fiction.
- World War, 1914-1918.
- United States. Marine Corps--Fiction.
- United States.
- United States. Marine Corps.
- Genre:
- War stories.
- Fiction.
- Physical Description:
- xv, 265 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lincoln [Neb.] ; London : University of Nebraska Press, [2000]
- Summary:
- "" Fresh out of a Defiance, Ohio, high school, Thomas Boyd (1898- 1935) joined the Marines to serve his country in the patriotic heat of the spring of 1917. In 1919 he came home from the war with a Croix de Guerre and a desire to write. He joined the "St. Paul News" as a journalist and opened a bookstore, whose patrons included F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sinclair Lewis. "Through the Wheat" appeared to immediate acclaim, with F. Scott Fitzgerald calling it "a work of art" and "arresting." Boyd wrote five other works before he died in Vermont of a cerebral hemorrhage at age thirty-seven.
- Notes:
- Originally published: New York : Scribner's Sons, 1923.
- Includes bibliographical references (page xv).
- ISBN:
- 0803261683
- OCLC:
- 43903471
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