ARCH OF TRIUMPH

It’s amazing to hear a novel read in the tone of the era about which it was written--shadowy and haltingly, as if an enemy might be listening. Ralph Cosham illuminates Remarque’s masterpiece about a German surgeon who is prevented from legally practicing medicine in Paris in 1939. Cosham paints the highlights of hopeless day-to-day living. He projects the sounds and the threats of the imminent war with his sophisticated reading. An excellent production. J.P. © AudioFile 2005, Portland, Maine [Published: OCT/NOV 05]