From Here to Eternity

Name: From Here to Eternity
Author: James Jones

by James Jones

The incredible amount of description. When Prewitt tries to get from the part of town where he’s been wounded out to Alma’s house, every street is named. Every street is described. You could take that passage and draw a map of Honolulu.

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