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Fiction · War novel

The Gallery

John Horne Burns
1947 · 342 pages

Occupied Naples, 1944: soldiers and civilians trading cigarettes, sex, and rumor under the arcade. Burns writes Americans who understand nothing of the country they hold, and a bar where gay soldiers breathe.

★ 5.2