A Bell For Adano by John Hersey

'Round about a quarter century ago I watched A Bell For Adano on American Movie Classics, a station that at the time actually played classic films and not television series and second rate flicks. Yesterday I finished reading the novel of the same name by John Hersey. It's the sentimental and at times comedic story of the American occupation of an Italian town during WWII. I liked it a lot, but was routinely put off by the casual use of slurs (dago, wop) in the daily speech of the Americans. It's accurate for the time, just a little jarring. Grade: B (book # 69 of 2012)