Author Description

"The Good Soldier traces the unusual relationship between two welthy, turn-of-th-century couples--one British, the other American--who meet yearly in the fashionable German spa town of Bad Nauheim. As the story moves back and forth in time between 1902 and 1914, the surface propriety of the pre-war society in which these four characters live is shattered--revealing instead a combination of deceit, hatred, infidelity and betrayal. "The Good Soldier" of the title is Edward Ashburnham, who is torn between the moral code he subscribes to as a member of the English upper class and his consuming passion for women younger than his wife--a stoic but fallible figure in what his American friend, John Dowell, calls "the saddest story I have ever heard.""--Back cover.