

A Bell for Adano
Author: John Hersey
Narrator: David Green
Unabridged: 8 hr 33 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Random House Audio
Published: 09/17/2019
Categories: Fiction, Classic, Military Fiction, Literary Fiction
Author: John Hersey
Narrator: David Green
Unabridged: 8 hr 33 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Random House Audio
Published: 09/17/2019
Categories: Fiction, Classic, Military Fiction, Literary Fiction
John Hersey (1914–1993), a prolific and acclaimed writer of both fiction and nonfiction, won a Pulitzer Prize for A Bell for Adano. Yet throughout his life, he was most respected for Hiroshima. According to the New Yorker, “[It] remains his crowning achievement. Though it is imbued with a profound moral sense, it does not preach. It does not hector. It simply tells. The power of it, and of its author, is in the reporting.”
It is always pleasurable when you begin a book with low expectations and finish it delighted. I chose to read A Bell for Adano because it filled a hole in my classic reading history, it won the 1945 Pulitzer Prize, and I had a copy. I loved Hersey's sparse writing style (although that is not usually......more
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