{"product_id":"9781590178072","title":"The Gallery","description":"\"The first book of real magnitude to come out of the last war.\" —John Dos Passos\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eJohn Horne Burns brought \u003ci\u003eThe Gallery\u003c\/i\u003e back from World War II, and on publication  in 1947 it became a  critically-acclaimed bestseller. However, Burns's early death  at the  age of 36 led to the subsequent neglect of this searching book, which  captures  the shock the war dealt to the preconceptions and ideals of  the victorious Americans.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eSet in occupied Naples in 1944, \u003ci\u003eThe Gallery\u003c\/i\u003e takes its name from the Galleria Umberto,  a bombed-out arcade where  everybody in town comes together in pursuit of food, drink,  sex, money,  and oblivion. A daring and enduring novel—one of the first to look  directly  at gay life in the military—\u003ci\u003eThe Gallery\u003c\/i\u003e poignantly conveys the mixed feelings of  the men and women who fought the war that made America a superpower.","brand":"New York Review Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47184441245936,"sku":"9781590178072","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781590178072_p0.jpg?v=1763809456","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781590178072","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}