Mr. Straight Arrow: The Career of John Hersey, Author of Hiroshima

by Jeremy Treglown

Book Overview

A monumental reevaluation of the career of John Hersey, the author of Hiroshima

Few are the books with as immediate an impact and as enduring a legacy as John Hersey's Hiroshima. First published as an entire issue of The New Yorker in 1946, it was serialized in newspapers the world over and has never gone out of print. By conveying plainly the experiences of six survivors of the 1945 atomic bombing and its aftermath,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374280266
• ISBN13: 9780374280260
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.1"