From Here to Eternity

Perhaps overshadowed somewhat in the popular imagination by the famous 1953 film adaptation starring Burt Lancaster, Donna Read, Montgomery Clift and Deborah Kerr, ‘From Here to Eternity’ the novel is a sweeping epic of pre-war army life in Hawaii and a rebuke to the widely held notion that only bad novels result in good film adaptations. This novel is stunningly good with a large cast of characters depicted against a backdrop portrayed in the most minute detail and consisting of the Schofield Barracks, its frightening prison the Post Stockade, and the hotels, bars, restaurants and brothels of Honolulu.