The Return of the Soldier - Softcover

West, Rebecca

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1484165098 ISBN 13: 9781484165096

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2013

Synopsis

"A major literary event." -Carl Rollyson

The Return of the Soldier tells the story of a shell-shocked soldier who returns home from the First World War believing that he is in love with a working-class woman from his past, rather than married to his aristocratic wife. His family and doctor must decide whether to allow him to remain safely in his delusion, or to bring him back to reality and return him to the front. A brief novel with a seemingly simple plot, it is a classic of modernist literature and provides a point of entry into discussions of some of the twentieth century's most enduring themes.

In 1916 on an isolated country estate just outside London, Captain Chris Baldry, a shell-shocked captain suffering from amnesia, makes a bittersweet homecoming to the three women who have helped shape his life. Will the devoted wife he can no longer recollect, the favorite cousin he remembers only as a childhood friend, and the poor innkeeper's daughter he once courted leave Chris to languish in a safe, dreamy past--or will they help him recover his memory so that he can return to the front? The answer is revealed through a heart-wrenching, unexpected sacrifice.

About this title

Review:

Rebecca West - highly intelligent, highly gifted, vital, original, combative, formidable and kind - was a great woman (VICTORIA GLENDINNING)

Book Description:

This is a masterful novel about a shell-shocked, amnesiac soldier returning from WWI to the three women who love him.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1484165098
• ISBN 13: 9781484165096
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 114