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    One Man's Initiation 1917 (Barnes & Noble Digital Library)

    By John Dos Passos

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    Published in 1920, this impressionistic first novel by the celebrated author of the U. S. A. Trilogy is a harrowing portrait of ambulance drivers in France during World War I.  Based on the author's own wartime experiences, it is deeply felt but never maudlin, capturing the raw ambiguities of war with unflinching honesty. 

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBarnes & Noble
    Release dateMar 1, 2011
    ISBN9781411444522
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    • 3/5
      This is a semi-autobiographical novella. The American author is writing of his own experiences as a volunteer ambulance driver in France during the First World War in 1917. The writing is disjointed, a scathing commentary of war. It covers disparate events; there is little continuity to the story. Each short chapter depicts different scenes of war, the trip over the Atlantic, days in Paris and "the French girls", a didactic discussion one night among Frenchmen and Americans - an anarchist, a talkative socialist, another with deep religious conviction. There are numerous scenes of the French land and towns, somewhat colorfully depicted, with French slate tiles, mansard roofs, abbeys and colorful foulards. Clearly the author wanted to demonstrate a thorough knowledge with a palette of numerous pigments, the gas and mud eerily painted in pigments of green, gray and mustard.I preferred The Backwash Of War by Ellen Newbold La Motte.The audiobook's narration narration by Jeff Woodman, mixing both American and French accents, was quite well done.
    • 3/5
      This novella about an American ambulance driver in World War I was a good remembrance for Veterans Day (although I didn't get to it until later). As with most WWI stories, it is gritty and heartwrenching. I find that is even more affecting in audiobook form than in the written word, so it took me a while to make it through this despite its short length.As for the narration, it was neither great nor terrible. A tad on the slow side but not so much as to make me use the 1.5x setting...August 2017 reread: No change from the above...
    • 5/5
      Short book (100 pages) of short vignettes describing one man's encounter with the horrors of war as a volunteer ambulance driver in WWI. Don't just read this for the stories, which are fantastic. Read this also for the excessible, expressive, prose. Any writers of action, adventure, fantasy, or scifi should study this one. The kindle version is free on Amazon - get it and enjoy.......