James Jones's saga of life in the American Midwest, newly revised five decades after it was first published and including a new foreword by his daughter, Kaylie Jones 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 read. The result is the masterpiece Jones intended: a tale whose brutal honesty is as shocking now as on the day it was first published. This ebook features an illustrated biography of James Jones including rare photos from the author's estate.

ジェームズ・ジョーンズが描くのは、戦後の虚無に喘ぐ魂の彷徨です。中西部の閉塞感の中で、帰還兵の孤独と社会の偽善を剥き出しの言葉で刻んでいます。改訂により研ぎ澄まされた文体は、人間の本能と絶望を直視させる圧倒的な熱量を持って読者に迫り、魂を激しく揺さぶります。 映像版は鮮烈な色彩で愛憎劇を際立たせましたが、原作には活字のみが到達し得る心理描写の深淵があります。銀幕の裏に潜む、より残酷で切実な「生」の震えを本著で体感してください。両メディアを跨ぐことで、この傑作が持つ真の奥行きが完成するはずです。