Heaven Has No Favorites: A Novel - Softcover

Remarque, Erich Maria

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0449912493 ISBN 13: 9780449912492

Publisher: Random House Publishing Group, 2014

Synopsis

The basis of the 1977 film, Bobby Deerfield, starring Al Pacino, a novel by the author of All Quiet on the Western Front pairs a race-car driver with a terminally ill woman in a tragic romance. Reprint.

About this title

About the Author:

Erich Maria Remarque, who was born in Germany, was drafted into the German army during World War I. Through the hazardous years following the war he worked at many occupations: schoolteacher, small-town drama critic, race-car driver, editor of a sports magazine. His first novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, was published in Germany in 1928. A brilliant success, selling more than a million copies, it was the first of many literary triumphs. When the Nazis came to power, Remarque left Germany for Switzerland. He rejected all attempts to persuade him to return, and as a result he lost his German citizenship, his books were burned, and his films banned. He went to the United States in 1938 and became a citizen in 1947. He later lived in Switzerland with his second wife, the actress Paulette Goddard. He died in September 1970.

From the Inside Flap:

harming, beautiful . . . and slowly dying of consumption. But she doesn't wish to end her days in a hospital in the Alps. She wants to see Paris again, then Venice--to live frivolously for as long as possible. She might die on the road, she might not, but before she goes, she wants a chance at life.

Clerfayt, a race-car driver, tempts fate every time he's on the road. A man with no illusions about chance, he is powerfully drawn to a woman who can look death in the eye and laugh. Together, he and Lillian make an unusual pair, living only for the moment, without regard for the future. It's a perfect arrangement--until one of them begins to fall in love. . . .

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0449912493
• ISBN 13: 9780449912492
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 320