• Title: Son at the Front
• Author: Edith Wharton
• Genre/Subject: Transatlantic tripe
• Publisher: Kindle
• Publication Date: 1923
• Start date: 7/20/2021
• Finish date: 7/23/2021

Review:

A powerful, moving, intensely captivating piece of Whartonian brilliance.

This one is not one of her noted masterworks, but it really should be.

Mobilization and the Great War seen through the lens of Paris from 1914-1918, and seen through the experience of Americans before they joined the war. Fascinating.

It emphasized to me how inconvenient and disruptive war really is. Even putting aside the war and battles, the disruption to life, culture and civilized society is tragic.

A rare but deserved 5 stars.