Introduced by Sebastian Barry: a trade edition of David Jones's masterwork of the First World War, aimed at a fiction audience. With an introduction by Sebastian Barry In Parenthesis is loved by many as one of the great verse works of the Great War: but it is unique in being also one of the great prose works on the subject. This edition, aimed at readers of fiction unfamiliar to Jones's writing, seeks to share the triumphantly original, genre-defying master-work of 'the 20th century's great neglected genius' ( Spectator ).