The Young Lions

by Irwin Shaw

Overview

The Young Lions is a vivid and classic novel that portrays the experiences of ordinary soldiers fighting World War II. Told from the points of view of a perceptive young Nazi, a jaded American film producer, and a shy Jewish boy just married to the love of his life, Shaw conveys, as no other novelist has since, the scope, confusion, and complexity of war.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780226751290
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Publication date:	12/01/2000
Series:	Phoenix Fiction Series
Edition description:	1
Pages:	696
Sales rank:	245,560
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 1.60(d)

About the Author

Irwin Shaw (1913-1984) grew up in New York City and graduated from Brooklyn College in 1934. He is the playwright of Bury the Dead, and the author of twelve novels, among them Rich Man, Poor Man, The Troubled Air, Nightwork, Acceptable Losses, Evening in Byzantium and Short Stories: Five Decades, the last published by the University of Chicago Press.

Editorial Reviews

Reading [The Young Lions] is a true emotional experience—and one that is likely to leave the reader with a deeper understanding of the present world. Perhaps . . . no novel can be asked to accomplish more than that.
— (New York Times Book Review)

Marc Brandel

It is almost as if a De Maggio had cast aside his center fielder's glove one afternoon, turned up that night at Madison Square Garden, and knocked out Joe Louis in the first round. Irwin Shaw's novel is that impressive.
— (New York Herald Tribune Weekly Book Review )

Richard Match

[Shaw] writes with passion and tremendous punch, and drives the action forward with unfailing inventiveness.
— (Atlantic Monthly )

Charles J. Rolo