Through the Wheat: A Novel of the World War I Marines (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780803261686)

Fresh out of a Defiance, Ohio, high school, Thomas Boyd (1898-1935) joined the Marines to serve his country in the patriotic heat of the spring of 1917. In 1919 he came home from the war with a Croix de Guerre and a desire to write. He joined the St. Paul News as a journalist and opened a bookstore, whose patrons included F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sinclair Lewis. Through the Wheat appeared to immediate acclaim, with F. Scott Fitzgerald calling it "a work of art" and "arresting." Boyd wrote five other works before he died in Vermont of a cerebral hemorrhage at age thirty-seven.

Author: Thomas Boyd
ISBN-10: 0803261683
ISBN-13: 9780803261686
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Language: English
Published: 09/01/2000
Pages: 266
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.69lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.65d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 11/15/2000 pg. 102