Willow Run

by Glendon Swarthout

A personal look at workers a the Willow Run bomber making factory during World War II in Michigan. A voice in the poverty of voices from the working class in the US.

237 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1982

About the author

Glendon Fred Swarthout was an American writer. Some of his best known novels were made into films of the same title, Where the Boys Are, The Shootist and They Came To Cordura.

Also wrote under Glendon Fred Swarthout. Twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction.

See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glendon_...

Reviews

[Miles Swarthout · Rating 1 out of 5]

This rare first (and only) edition was Glendon Swarthout's very first novel, written when he was working at the Willow Run bomber plant in Detroit assembling American bombers for the WWII war effort. His story is about people working in this same bomber plant and after six month's hard work writing, Glendon was able to get it published in 1943 by a now long-defunct NYC publisher, Thomas Y. Crowell. Glendon always listed this title on his backlist, but he was not proud of this first effort, which he soon realized was just not very well written.

This rare first novel by a later-to-be-famous American novelist is now selling to collectors in the $400-500 range in good condition. Not worth reading but definitely worth collecting.