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Trinity
Leon Uris’s beloved Irish classic, available in Avon mass market.
From the acclaimed author who enthralled the world with Exodus, Battle Cry, QB VII, Topaz, and other beloved classics of twentieth-century fiction comes a sweeping and powerful epic adventure that captures the "terrible beauty" of Ireland during its long and bloody struggle for freedom. It is the electrifying story of an idealistic young Catholic rebel and the valiant and beautiful Protestant girl who defied her heritage to join his cause. It is a tale of love and danger, of triumph at an unthinkable cost—a magnificent portrait of a people divided by class, faith, and prejudice—an unforgettable saga of the fires that devastated a majestic land... and the unquenchable flames that burn in the human heart.
From the acclaimed author who enthralled the world with Exodus, Battle Cry, QB VII, Topaz, and other beloved classics of twentieth-century fiction comes a sweeping and powerful epic adventure that captures the "terrible beauty" of Ireland during its long and bloody struggle for freedom. It is the electrifying story of an idealistic young Catholic rebel and the valiant and beautiful Protestant girl who defied her heritage to join his cause. It is a tale of love and danger, of triumph at an unthinkable cost—a magnificent portrait of a people divided by class, faith, and prejudice—an unforgettable saga of the fires that devastated a majestic land... and the unquenchable flames that burn in the human heart.
894 pages, Mass Market Paperback
First published January 1, 1976
About the author
Leon Uris
91 books1,759 followersLeon Marcus Uris (August 3, 1924 - June 21, 2003) was an American novelist, known for his historical fiction and the deep research that went into his novels. His two bestselling books were Exodus, published in 1958, and Trinity, in 1976.
Leon Uris was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Jewish-American parents Wolf William and Anna (Blumberg) Uris. His father, a Polish-born immigrant, was a paperhanger, then a storekeeper. William spent a year in Palestine after World War I before entering the United States. He derived his surname from Yerushalmi, meaning "man of Jerusalem." (His brother Aron, Leon Uris' uncle, took the name Yerushalmi) "He was basically a failure," Uris later said of his father. "He went from failure to failure."
Uris attended schools in Norfolk, Virginia and Baltimore, but never graduated from high school, after having failed English three times. At age seventeen, while in his senior year of high school, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and Uris enlisted in the United States Marine Corps. He served in the South Pacific as a radioman (in combat) at Guadalcanal, Tarawa, and New Zealand from 1942 through 1945. While recuperating from malaria in San Francisco, he met Betty Beck, a Marine sergeant; they married in 1945.
Coming out of the service, he worked for a newspaper, writing in his spare time. In 1950, Esquire magazine bought an article, and he began to devote himself to writing more seriously. Drawing on his experiences in Guadalcanal and Tarawa he produced the best-selling, Battle Cry, a novel depicting the toughness and courage of U.S. Marines in the Pacific. He then went to Warner Brothers in Hollywood helping to write the movie, which was extremely popular with the public, if not the critics. Later he went on to write The Angry Hills, a novel set in war-time Greece.
According to one source, in the early 1950's he was hired by an American public relations firm to go to Israel and "soak up the atmosphere and create a novel about it". That novel would be Exodus, which came out in 1958 and became his best known work. Others say that Uris, motivated by an intense interest in Israel, financed his own research for the novel by selling the film rights in advance to MGM and writing articles about the Sinai campaign. It is said that the book involved two years of research, and involved thousands of interviews. Exodus illustrated the history of Palestine from the late 19th century through the founding of the state of Israel in 1948. It was a worldwide best-seller, translated into a dozen languages, and was made into a feature film in 1960, starring Paul Newman, directed by Otto Preminger, as well as into a short-lived Broadway musical (12 previews, 19 performances) in 1971. Uris' novel Topaz was adapted for the screen and directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
Uris' subsequent works included: Mila 18, a story of the Warsaw ghetto uprising; Armageddon: A Novel of Berlin, which reveals the detailed work by British and American intelligence services in planning for the occupation and pacification of post WWII Germany; Trinity, an epic novel about Ireland's struggle for independence; QB VII, a novel about the role of a Polish doctor in a German concentration camp ; and The Haj, with insights into the history of the Middle East and the secret machinations of foreigners which have led to today's turmoil.
He also wrote the screenplays for Battle Cry and Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
Uris was married three times: to Betty Beck, with whom he had three children, from 1945 through their divorce in 1968; Margery Edwards in 1969, who died a year later, and Jill Peabody in 1970, with whom he had two children, and divorced in 1989.
Leon Uris died of renal failure at his Long Island home on Shelter Island, aged 78.
Leon Uris's papers can be found at the Ransom Center, University of Texas in Austin. The collection includes all of Uris's novels, with the exception of The Haj and Mitla Pass, as well as manus
Leon Uris was born in Baltimore, Maryland, the son of Jewish-American parents Wolf William and Anna (Blumberg) Uris. His father, a Polish-born immigrant, was a paperhanger, then a storekeeper. William spent a year in Palestine after World War I before entering the United States. He derived his surname from Yerushalmi, meaning "man of Jerusalem." (His brother Aron, Leon Uris' uncle, took the name Yerushalmi) "He was basically a failure," Uris later said of his father. "He went from failure to failure."
Uris attended schools in Norfolk, Virginia and Baltimore, but never graduated from high school, after having failed English three times. At age seventeen, while in his senior year of high school, the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor and Uris enlisted in the United States Marine Corps. He served in the South Pacific as a radioman (in combat) at Guadalcanal, Tarawa, and New Zealand from 1942 through 1945. While recuperating from malaria in San Francisco, he met Betty Beck, a Marine sergeant; they married in 1945.
Coming out of the service, he worked for a newspaper, writing in his spare time. In 1950, Esquire magazine bought an article, and he began to devote himself to writing more seriously. Drawing on his experiences in Guadalcanal and Tarawa he produced the best-selling, Battle Cry, a novel depicting the toughness and courage of U.S. Marines in the Pacific. He then went to Warner Brothers in Hollywood helping to write the movie, which was extremely popular with the public, if not the critics. Later he went on to write The Angry Hills, a novel set in war-time Greece.
According to one source, in the early 1950's he was hired by an American public relations firm to go to Israel and "soak up the atmosphere and create a novel about it". That novel would be Exodus, which came out in 1958 and became his best known work. Others say that Uris, motivated by an intense interest in Israel, financed his own research for the novel by selling the film rights in advance to MGM and writing articles about the Sinai campaign. It is said that the book involved two years of research, and involved thousands of interviews. Exodus illustrated the history of Palestine from the late 19th century through the founding of the state of Israel in 1948. It was a worldwide best-seller, translated into a dozen languages, and was made into a feature film in 1960, starring Paul Newman, directed by Otto Preminger, as well as into a short-lived Broadway musical (12 previews, 19 performances) in 1971. Uris' novel Topaz was adapted for the screen and directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
Uris' subsequent works included: Mila 18, a story of the Warsaw ghetto uprising; Armageddon: A Novel of Berlin, which reveals the detailed work by British and American intelligence services in planning for the occupation and pacification of post WWII Germany; Trinity, an epic novel about Ireland's struggle for independence; QB VII, a novel about the role of a Polish doctor in a German concentration camp ; and The Haj, with insights into the history of the Middle East and the secret machinations of foreigners which have led to today's turmoil.
He also wrote the screenplays for Battle Cry and Gunfight at the O.K. Corral.
Uris was married three times: to Betty Beck, with whom he had three children, from 1945 through their divorce in 1968; Margery Edwards in 1969, who died a year later, and Jill Peabody in 1970, with whom he had two children, and divorced in 1989.
Leon Uris died of renal failure at his Long Island home on Shelter Island, aged 78.
Leon Uris's papers can be found at the Ransom Center, University of Texas in Austin. The collection includes all of Uris's novels, with the exception of The Haj and Mitla Pass, as well as manus
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September 23, 2020
Trinity annemin kitaplığından yakın zamanda tırtıkladığım 3 kitaptan biriydi ve 1977 yılı ilk baskısıydı. Normalde bu tarz eski baskıları sevmiyorum (birincisi tozlar alerjimi azdırıyor, ikincisi neden bilmiyorum o kadar yazım yanlışı oluyor ki bazen okumayı çok güçleştiriyor) ama biraz da puanı nedeniyle bir şans vermek istedim.
Leon Uris'in dili mükemmel, ona kimsenin birşey diyebileceğini sanmıyorum. Ancak açıkçası hikayenin işleniş biçimi olarak beni çok içine almadı. Trinity'de daha sonra basılan iki kitabın etkilerini gördüm. Yabancı ve Devlerin Düşüşü. Yine de başarılı bir tarihsel kurguydu ki günümüzde bu türe pek fazla rastlayamıyoruz.
43 yıl sonra kimsenin Trinity'yi bulabileceğini, bulsa bile okuyacağını sanmıyorum ama bu da böyle dursun.
Herkese keyifli okumalar!
Leon Uris'in dili mükemmel, ona kimsenin birşey diyebileceğini sanmıyorum. Ancak açıkçası hikayenin işleniş biçimi olarak beni çok içine almadı. Trinity'de daha sonra basılan iki kitabın etkilerini gördüm. Yabancı ve Devlerin Düşüşü. Yine de başarılı bir tarihsel kurguydu ki günümüzde bu türe pek fazla rastlayamıyoruz.
43 yıl sonra kimsenin Trinity'yi bulabileceğini, bulsa bile okuyacağını sanmıyorum ama bu da böyle dursun.
Herkese keyifli okumalar!
July 20, 2016
İrlanda'daki büyük açlıktan başlayıp, Paskalya Ayaklanması'na kadarki dönemi romanlaştıran bir çalışma. Kuzey İrlanda'nın çiftliklerinden, Dublin ve Belfast'a uzanan, hem soyluları ve İmparatorluk'un işbirlikçilerini, hem de emekçileri gösteren uzun mu uzun bir yolculuk olmuş.
Kitapta yer yer parlayan kısımlar var: Protestanların Katolik mahallesine yaptığı baskın, akla Maraş ve Çorum katliamlarını getiriyor. Fabrika yangını sahnesi de etkileyici. Son sahne de öyle. Uris aksiyon sahnelerini canlandırmakta başarılı bir yazar.
Kitabın kurgusu ve kişileştirmeleri için aynı şeyi söylemek mümkün değil. Yarısından sonra edebi üslup tutarsızlaşıyor. Hızlı geçişler, olay örgüsünü bu hıza uydurmak için aceleyle yapılan -ve daha ziyade yazarın kendisi için aldığı notlara benzeyen- serimler; romanı sığ bir best-seller çalışmaya yaklaştıran yapay gerilimler, dolgu işlevi gören roman tipleri bir araya geldiğinde, roman iyiden vasata doğru yaklaşıyor.
İrlanda sorunu üzerine bir çalışma yaptığım için okudum. Belki ülkenin havasını biraz hissedebilirim diye umuyordum. Ama nedense Leon Uris'in İrlanda bilgisine, dönemin havasını bize verebilme becerisine çok güvenmedim. Eminim okunacak daha iyi irlanda kitapları vardır.
Kitapta yer yer parlayan kısımlar var: Protestanların Katolik mahallesine yaptığı baskın, akla Maraş ve Çorum katliamlarını getiriyor. Fabrika yangını sahnesi de etkileyici. Son sahne de öyle. Uris aksiyon sahnelerini canlandırmakta başarılı bir yazar.
Kitabın kurgusu ve kişileştirmeleri için aynı şeyi söylemek mümkün değil. Yarısından sonra edebi üslup tutarsızlaşıyor. Hızlı geçişler, olay örgüsünü bu hıza uydurmak için aceleyle yapılan -ve daha ziyade yazarın kendisi için aldığı notlara benzeyen- serimler; romanı sığ bir best-seller çalışmaya yaklaştıran yapay gerilimler, dolgu işlevi gören roman tipleri bir araya geldiğinde, roman iyiden vasata doğru yaklaşıyor.
İrlanda sorunu üzerine bir çalışma yaptığım için okudum. Belki ülkenin havasını biraz hissedebilirim diye umuyordum. Ama nedense Leon Uris'in İrlanda bilgisine, dönemin havasını bize verebilme becerisine çok güvenmedim. Eminim okunacak daha iyi irlanda kitapları vardır.
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