After the War by Daniel Stern Introduction by Elie Wiesel "Less elegant, more disarmingly human, Stern is a species of Jewish Graham Greene . . . his war veteran hero, Richard Stone, . . . reflects that life is not so much a battlefield as an enduring aftermath of battle."—Washington Post

Set against the backdrop of New York City in the 1950s, After the War captures those exciting years when everyone was trying to make up for lost time. It was a time for experimentation, and returned World War II veteran Richard Stone deliberately erected a wall of "disconnectionism," and pursued a rootless, Rilke-like existence in borrowed apartments, hocking the belongings for eating (and drinking) money. It was a time for intense living and love: Richard's love affair with bewitching and bewildering Jemmy Gordon, only child of a celebrated war correspondent, is a masterpiece of enigma and surprise.

But the years after the war were more than a time to revel in being young: they constituted the last chance to resolve the omnipresence of death—in the war, in the tragic legacy of six million, and in the survivors themselves. Daniel Stern has that rare ability to probe the most serious subjects deeply, without compromise, and yet to keep his reader entertained. Out of the shared experience of Americans determinedly convalescing after the war, he has produced a memorable novel.

"The most attractive thing about Stern's book is its ground-base of—commentary is too forbidding a word—moral poetry."—Washington Post

"One of the most moving portraits of lost youth and lost love."—The Saturday Review

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After the War
ISBN 0-89263-331-X cloth $22.50s
ISBN 0-89263-332-8 paper $11.95

LC 94-13174. 6x9. 256 pp.
Literature. Fiction.

Publication Date: November 1994.

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