New Releases by James Gould Cozzens

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 war novel about American aviators focuses on events at an air station in the South in 1943. The main characters are high-ranking officers subject to all the human frailties -- love, anger, jealousy, ambition, fear, courage, stupidity and a measure of patriotism too.--Provided by publisher.

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.

In The Just and the Unjust, Pulitzer Prize-winning author James Gould Cozzens examines the ways in which freedom under the law operates in a democracy when a murder trial dominates the life of a small town.

The author paints a devastating portrait of a clever young writer, much enamoured of his own conception of himself, who engages in a love affair while acting as tutor to the delicate son of a wealthy American woman. The setting is Florence in winter, the Alps, the Riviera, in the ominous years before the war.--Provided by publisher.