A Son at the Front

<p>2019 Reprint of 1923 Edition.  Largely criticized or ignored by a war-weary public when it was originally published in 1922 <em>A Son at the Front</em> is an extraordinarily poignant novel chronicling the effects of WWI on painter John Campton and his only child George.  Wharton's antiwar masterpiece now once again available probes the devastation of World War I on the home front. Interweaving her own experiences of the Great War with themes of parental and filial love art and self-sacrifice national loyalties and class privilege Wharton tells an intimate and captivating story of war behind the lines.</p>