The Road Back: A Novel (All Quiet on the Western Front) - Softcover

Remarque, Erich Maria

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0449912469 ISBN 13: 9780449912461

Publisher: Random House Publishing Group, 1998

Synopsis

The sequel to the masterpiece All Quiet on the Western Front, The Road Back is a classic novel of the slow return of peace to Europe in the years following World War I.

After four grueling years, the Great War has finally ended. Now Ernst and the few men left from his company cannot help wondering what will become of them. The town they departed as eager young men seems colder, their homes smaller, the reasons their comrades had to die even more inexplicable.

For Ernst and his friends, the road back to peace is more treacherous than they ever imagined. Suffering food shortages, political unrest, and a broken heart, Ernst undergoes a crisis that teaches him what there is to live for—and what he has that no one can ever take away.

“The world has a great writer in Erich Maria Remarque. He is a craftsman of unquestionably first rank, a man who can bend language to his will. Whether he writes of men or of inanimate nature, his touch is sensitive, firm, and sure.”—The New York Times Book Review

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From the Inside Flap:

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After four grueling years the Great War has finally ended. Now Ernst and the few men left from his company cannot help wondering what will become of them. The town they departed as eager young men seems colder, their homes smaller, the reasons their comrades had to die even more inexplicable.

For Ernst and his friends, the road back to peace is more treacherous than they ever imagined. Suffering food shortages, political unrest, and a broken heart,  Ernst undergoes a crisis that teaches him what there is to live for--and what he has that no one can ever take away.

From the Back Cover:

"A great writer . . . He is a craftsman of unquestionably first rank, a man who can bend his language to his will. Whether he writes of men or of inanimate nature, his touch is sensitive, firm, and sure."
--The New York Times Book Review

About this edition

• Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0449912469
• ISBN 13: 9780449912461
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 324