{"product_id":"dreadful-the-short-life-and-gay-times-of-john-horne-burns-margolick-david","title":"Dreadful : The Short Life and Gay Times of John Horne Burns \/ Margolick, David","description":"\u003cp\u003eOther Press, 2014. Hardcover. VG\/VG. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eJohn Horne Burns (1916–1953) led a brief and controversial life, and as a writer, transformed many of his darkest experiences into literature. Burns was born in Massachusetts, graduated from Andover and Harvard, and went on to teach English at the Loomis School, a boarding school for boys in Windsor, Connecticut. During World War II, he was stationed in Africa and Italy, and worked mainly in military intelligence. His first novel, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Gallery\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e (1947), based on his wartime experiences, is a critically acclaimed novel and one of the first to unflinchingly depict gay life in the military. It sold half a million copies upon publication, but never again would Burns receive that kind of critical or popular attention.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDreadful\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e follows Burns from his education at the best schools to his final years of drinking and depression in Italy. With intelligence and insight, David Margolick examines Burns’s moral ambivalence toward the behavior of American soldiers stationed with him in Naples, and the scandal surrounding his second novel, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci\u003eLucifer with a Book,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan\u003e an unflattering portrayal of his experiences at Loomis.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Desierto Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56441127534758,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0659\/3465\/5654\/files\/dreadful.webp?v=1763059385","url":"https:\/\/249f2c-1b.myshopify.com\/products\/dreadful-the-short-life-and-gay-times-of-john-horne-burns-margolick-david","provider":"DESIERTO BOOKS","version":"1.0","type":"link"}