Indianapolis Times, Volume 35, Number 128, Indianapolis, Marion County, 9 October 1923 — Page 7

TUESDAY, OCT. 9, 1923

Edith Wharton Unlocks Ghost of War in Her New Novel, ‘A Son at the Front’

w By WALTER D. HICKMAN. EF Edith Wharton had written •‘A Son at the Front” shortly after the World War I believe that It would have been a sensation. Coming at this time, it will be one of the books of the year, but not the commanding literary triumph It would have been on the heels of the war. Mrs. Wharton writes of real men and women, although her characters belong to a world that many of us never enter. Generally they are su-per-steam-heated. meaning that they have plenty of money or the power to get it in an easy way. "A Son at the Front” is not essentially a story of the trenches, although we hear the cries of the injured and those going over tor the last time, yet we are chiefly concerned with characters in Paris who had a hot time of adjusting themselves to the new order of things. Mrs. Wharton permits you to meet the sons of the very wealthy who went to war just as eagerly as the chap who had nothing but his loyalty and his own life to cffer. They were all brothers in this war. But what of the selfish and rich society matron in Paris who wanted her son to be in the war but many miles away from the actual fighting? What about the powerful banker who controlled the destinies of many groups of people? What of the artist who placed art above everything else? What about the man who wormed his fcay intd high places by so-called war erk? What about the society matron who kept on with her bridge parties and her dances under the guise of war relief? What about the man and woman who had their only son in the war? Edith Whakon realizes that an “only son" in the war was a great

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son Brant, the divorced and remarried mother of the only son; Anderson Brant, stepfather of the son at the front; Fortin-I.escluze, a doctor, but a man maintaining a strange life at home and another life away from it; Adele Anthony, Mme. Lebel, Mr. Mayhew and many others. You are interested in the re actions which all these people undergo during the war. “A Son at the Front” Is a powerful story. The author knows what war means. She is not always kind, at times she is cruel. But that Is war and life. If you are looking tor the better things in the world ol books, then read at once Edith Wharton’s "A Son at the Front.”

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