A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries (novel)

A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries
Author Kaylie Jones
Genre Autobiographic fiction
Published

Bantam Books, 1990

Akashic Books, 2003 (reissue)
Media type Book
Pages 203
ISBN 9781888451467
OCLC 59311418

A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries is a semi-autobiographical novel by Kaylie Jones, who was the daughter of James Jones. It describes her childhood in Paris in the 1960s, her struggles adjusting to her parents' adoption of a French boy, Benoit, and the family's later cultural transition when they return to the United States.[1]

This novel was first published in 1990 by Bantam Books. It was most recently reissued in 2003 by Akashic Books.

This novel was also adapted for the screen as A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries[2] by James Ivory in 1998.

Footnotes

  1. Cohen, Ellen R (1 June 1990). Library Journal 115 (10): 178.
  2. Internet Movie Database web page


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