Word: jonesism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Whatever the reasons, Wall Street this week seemed convinced that inflation would continue to bedevil the economy. After rising sharply during the first half of the year, largely on hopes that inflation had abated and the recovery was well under way, the stock market has tumbled recently. Last week the...
Like the pictures it accompanies, Jones' prose is offered with the stylistic niceties burned away. Sentences are marched out without a full complement of nouns and verbs. Oddly, the very flatness of his writing leaves the horizon clear for the experiences he describes. There may be more comprehensive illustrated...
WWII represents a return to the subject that James Jones has never really left. For the past several years he has been working on Whistle, a long novel that will cap the war trilogy of From Here to Eternity (1951) and The Thin Red Line (1962).
Jones, 53, is also marking another return. He has come back to the U.S. after having lived for 16 years in Paris and is now settled on a farm in eastern Long Island with his wife Gloria and two teen-age children. He gives three reasons for his repatriation: "If...
Jones set aside his novel for six months to write WWII. "This project fascinated me," he says. "It gave me the chance to editorialize in a way that my novels do not. When I write fiction, I have to worry about the idiosyncrasies of my characters. In WWII I could...