Some Came Running is a novel by James Jones. It is the story of a war veteran with literary aspirations who returns in 1948 to his hometown of Parkman, Indiana, after a failed writing career. (The town of Parkman was loosely based on Jones' hometown of Robinson, Illinois.)
Dave Hirsh is a cynical Army veteran who winds up in his hometown of Parkman after being put on a bus in Chicago while intoxicated. Ginny Moorehead, a woman of seemingly loose ...
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Some Came Running is a novel by James Jones. It is the story of a war veteran with literary aspirations who returns in 1948 to his hometown of Parkman, Indiana, after a failed writing career. (The town of Parkman was loosely based on Jones' hometown of Robinson, Illinois.)
Dave Hirsh is a cynical Army veteran who winds up in his hometown of Parkman after being put on a bus in Chicago while intoxicated. Ginny Moorehead, a woman of seemingly loose morals and poor education, has taken the same bus.
Hirsh had left Parkman 16 years before when his older brother Frank placed him in a charity boarding school and is still embittered. Frank has since married well, inherited a jewelry business from the father of his wife Agnes and has made their social status his highest priority. Dave's return threatens this, so Frank makes a fruitless stab at arranging respectability, introducing him to Professor French and his daughter Gwen.
Dave moves in different circles, however. He befriends Bama, a...
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