New Releases by James Gould Cozzens

James Gould Cozzens was one of America''s most famous writers after the Second World War. His Pulitzer Prize-winning novel GUARD OF HONOR balances a vast cast of intricately enmeshed characters as they react over the course of three tense days to a racial incident on a U.S. Air Force training base in Florida in 1942.

Includes the detailed World War II diaries and seventy-five declassified secret memos written by Cozzens, who worked in the Office of Information Services at Air Force Headquarters and who was privy to daily activity reports and confidential memos which revealed the "scandals, misadventures and dirty deals which here and there enlivened the record."--Jacket.

This volume was published to mark the seventy-fifth birthday, 19 August 1978, of James Gould Cozzens. The complete novel, the selections from six of Cozzen''s major novels, and the stories, essays, and reviews included here furnish a comprehensive overview of and an introduction to the canon of a major American novelist. The book provides a permanently usable collection for new readers of James Gould Cozzens as well as an omnibus for the initiated.--Provided by publisher.

Catherine is resentful of her older sister, Mary Louise and her interest in boys. Set in Cuba, this short story comes to a violent end.

Selections from Prize stories.

The narrator is Henry Worthington, founder and head of an eminently successful management consultant firm. Come to be sixty-odd, and moved to wonder what if any meaning his life may have, he undertakes a review of it.

This novel, translated into French, tells how, in the span of forty-nine hours, small-town lawyer Arthur Winner discovers the deeper meaning of his world, his relationships, and himself.