Herman Wouk
Author
Language
English
Description
Herman Wouk has ranged in his novels from the mighty narrative of The Caine Mutiny and the warm, intimate humor of Marjorie Morningstar to the global panorama of The Winds of War and War and Remembrance. All these powers merge in this major new work of nonfiction, The Will to Live On, an illuminating account of the worldwide revolution that has been sweeping over Jewry, set against a swiftly reviewed background of history, tradition, and sacred literature.
Forty...
Author
Language
English
Description
An "enormously entertaining" portrait of "a Bronx Tom Sawyer" (San Francisco Chronicle), City Boy is a sharp and moving novel of boyhood from Pulitzer Prize winner Herman Wouk.
A hilarious and often touching tale of an urban kid's adventures and misadventures on the street, in school, in the countryside, always in pursuit of Lucille, a heartless redhead personifying all the girls who torment and fascinate pubescent lads of eleven.
Author
Language
English
Description
This acclaimed World War II psychological courtroom drama was the sensation of 1954. The play reveals the destructive madness of Lieutenant Commander Queeg and his questionable behavior aboard the USS Caine Mutiny during a typhoon in the Pacific. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring James Avery, Chuma Hunter-Gault, Ian Lithgow, Scott Lowell, Frank Muller, Michael Rivkin, David Selby and Grant Shaud.
11) The Hope
Author
Publisher
RosettaBooks
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
"One of our best writers today-a modern Charles Dickens-is Herman Wouk... The Hope is not only a good read, but it also causes a good think." -William Safire, New York Times Starting in 1948 and reaching its climax during the Six-Day War of 1967, The Hope begins the story of Israel, a country fighting for its life-outmatched and surrounded by enemies. Zev Barak, Sam Pasternak, Don Kishote, and Benny Luria are all officers in the Israeli Army, caught...
12) Inside, Outside
Author
Publisher
RosettaBooks
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
From Pulitzer Prize-winning American author Herman Wouk, Inside, Outside is a rich and compelling story-beautifully focused and often hilarious... Israel David Goodkind is a minor bureaucrat in the Nixon White House, killing empty office time by writing the story of four generations of his large, sprawling Russian-Jewish immigrant family. As he recounts his brief stint in show business, his torrid affair with a showgirl, and his encounters with a...
13) Youngblood Hawke
Author
Publisher
RosettaBooks / Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
A writer finds wealth, fame, and sorrow in midcentury Manhattan in "a tremendous novel ... full of wisdom and pain" by a #1 New York Times -bestselling author ( Los Angeles Times ). Arthur Youngblood Hawke, an ex-Navy man, moves from hardscrabble rural Kentucky to New York, hoping to make his mark on the literary world. His first novel becomes an instant hit, and he is toasted by critics and swept along on a tide of celebrity. But as he gives himself...
Publisher
MPI Home Video
Pub. Date
[2002], c1988
Language
English
Description
One week after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, sweeping the United States into World War II, the Henry family is forever changed by the war in the Pacific, and the horror of the Holocaust. Features spectacular reenactments of the event at Midway, Yalta, Guadalcanal and El Alamein.