Soldier's Pay: Carbon Typescript — William Faulkner

Though it is about people who took part in WW I or suffered through it, Faulkner's first novel is in no sense a book about war. Nor is SOLDEIRS' PAY a book about peace. It is a book about disillusion and fulfillment, about sensuality and beauty, about love and hate and all the human emotions that shake us in Armageddon or in peace. It is a story for our own time, a story moving and intense, a story blended with humor and insight and pity.A deft hand has woven this narrative of mixed and frustrated emotions and has set it down with hard intelligence as well as consummate pity. The book rings true. (The New York Times)