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| Author | James Jones |
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| Language | English |
| Publisher | Charles Scribner's Sons |
Publication date | January 10, 1958[1] |
| Publication place | United States |
| Media type | Print (hardcover & paperback) |
| Pages | 1,266 (first edition, hard) |
| Preceded by | From Here to Eternity (1951) |
| Followed by | The Pistol (1959) |
Some Came Running is a novel by James Jones, published in 1958. It was Jones's second published novel, following his award-winning debut From Here to Eternity. It is the story of a war veteran with literary aspirations who returns in 1948 to his hometown of Parkman, Illinois,[2] after a failed writing career. It is a thinly disguised autobiographical novel of Jones's experiences in his hometown of Robinson, Illinois, immediately after returning from World War II. The title alludes to the lines in Chapter 10:17 of the Gospel of St. Mark,[note 1] which author James Jones used as an epigraph before the beginning of the novel.
A film version starring Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Shirley MacLaine was released the same year and was nominated for five Academy Awards.
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