cover image Soldier of the Great War

Soldier of the Great War

Mark Helprin. Avon Books, $7.99 (736pp) ISBN 978-0-380-71589-3

Energetic prose, poetic images of great intensity and an antic imagination combine in this gripping moral fable narrated by a septuagenarian irrevocably altered by WW I. This BOMC main selection was on PW 's hardcover bestseller list for eight weeks. (May)