Through the Wheat - A Novel of the World War I Marines (Paperback)

Fresh out of a Defiance, Ohio, high school, Thomas Boyd (1898-1935) joined the Marines to serve his country in the patriotic heat of the spring of 1917. In 1919 he came home from the war with a Croix de Guerre and a desire to write. He joined the St. Paul News as a journalist and opened a bookstore, whose patrons included F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sinclair Lewis. Through the Wheat appeared to immediate acclaim, with F. Scott Fitzgerald calling it "a work of art" and "arresting." Boyd wrote five other works before he died in Vermont of a cerebral hemorrhage at age thirty-seven. Introducing this Bison Books edition is Edwin Howard Simmons, a retired brigadier general in the United States Marine Corps and the author of The United States Marines: A History.

General

Imprint:	University of Nebraska Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 2000
First published:	August 2000
Authors:	Thomas Boyd
Introduction by:	Edwin Howard Simmons
Dimensions:	203 x 127 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	265
ISBN-13:	978-0-8032-6168-6
Categories:	Books > Fiction > General
LSN:	0-8032-6168-3
Barcode:	9780803261686

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