Herman Wouk, Author . Little, Brown $25 (278p) ISBN 978-0-316-52590-9
Still working more than 50 years after he won the Pulitzer for The Caine Mutiny
, and more than 30 years after The Winds of War
, Wouk, now nearly 90, has license to write what he pleases: in this case, a light, sprightly story about lost love, high-
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Herman Wouk, Author . Little, Brown $23.99 (183p) ISBN 978-0-316-07845-0
At age 94, Wouk embarks on an autobiographical journey through his monumental writings (The Caine Mutiny
; The Winds of War
; War and Remembrance
), people he has met in his life, world events, and books he has read (including the Talmud) to weave a
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Herman Wouk, Author Little, Brown and Company Inc $24.95 (693p) ISBN 978-0-316-95519-5
In the Historical Notes to this solid saga encapsulating three Israeli-Arab wars, Wouk makes astute reference to the element that gives the novel its considerable power: he refers to his ``arduous personal research . . . which is one reason that my...
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Herman Wouk, Author Back Bay Books $16.99 (656p) ISBN 978-0-316-95529-4
Wouk's 1985 saga is a social comedy of Jewish-American life reaching from New York to Jerusalem and spanning much of the 20th century. (Nov.)
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Herman Wouk, Author HarperCollins $25 (320p) ISBN 978-0-06-019608-0
In the 1950s, sensing a drifting of Jews away from their tradition, novelist Wouk (The Caine Mutiny, The Winds of War, etc.), an observant Jew, wrote This Is My God, a classic primer on Jewish belief and practices, to draw some of the curious back....
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Herman Wouk. Simon and Schuster, $25.99 (256p) ISBN 978-1-4516-9938-8
Moses, star of the Hebrew Bible; major figure in the New Testament and the Qur’an; played on screen by Charlton Heston, Burt Lancaster, and Val Kilmer; now the inspiration for both Wouk’s novel and the big-budget movie production it chronicles. At...
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Herman Wouk. Simon & Schuster, $20 (160p) ISBN 978-1-5011-2854-7
At 100 years old, bestselling novelist Wouk remains a thriving, vital writer. In this slim memoir, what comes through is the sense of purpose and faith that has animated his writing, and in particular, his great historical novels, The Winds of War...
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