Opposite attraction

This is the first joint biography of Erich Maria Remarque, author of All Quiet on the Western Front, the most famous war novel of all time, and Hollywood screen legend Paulette Goddard. Following the overwhelming success of All Quiet, Remarque was forced to flee the Nazis in 1933. Though he escaped, his sister Elfriede would meet a horrific end. Always restless and haunted by his state of exile, Remarque moved between Switzerland, Hollywood, where he womanized and wrote screenplays, and New York, where he worked on his novels and dabbled in cafe society. The excerpts from his…