Winner of the National Book Award, this bestseller describes army life in Hawaii on the eve of Pearl Harbor. "The publishers believe that the appearance of this novel is of comparable importance to the publication of This Side of Paradise or Look Homeward, Angel. For like the first novels of Fitzgerald and Wolfe, From Here to Eternity introduces a writer who will take a commanding place in American literature. The events of the novel occur in Hawaii...

Sebrina Cooper has made a life and career out of doing the right thing, but on her 30th birthday, she's unfulfilled and painfully single. She starts an affair with her ex-boyfriend Curtis, now a U.S. Marine Corps Recruiter who is engaged to be married, but accidentally meets his wife Andra-Lyn and forms an unexpected friendship.