Here to Stay: Studies in Human Tenacity

by John Hersey

Book Overview

1988 Paragon House Publishing trade PB, stated 1st paperback edition. Tesoro Books. In our chaotic times, John Hersey's narrative on human determination to survive in the 20th century is particularly... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0241902495
• ISBN13: 9780241902493
• Release Date: January 1963
• Publisher: Knopf
• Length: 346 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Includes the famous "Hiroshima"

This compilation of John Hersey's stories is subtitled "Studies in Human Tenacity" and includes the entire text of his famous work, "Hiroshima." Hersey tells the stoies of an "old lady marooned on a rooftop amidst floods caused by a hurricane," John Kennedy's heroism 17 years before he became President, a Jew in Auschwitz, a crippled G.I.'s reentering civilian life, the rehab of a shellshocked soldier, two Poles who survived persecution, and an escape from 1956 Hungary. He caps off up these uniquely touching essays with the bare, factual, severe and stunning stories of the survivors of the horror of a nuclear bomb detonated in a city -- Hiroshima, Japan.