Julie Orringer: The Flight Portfolio
The Flight Portfolio
Buch
- Penguin Random House India Pvt. Ltd, 06/2020
- Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-13: 9780307949714
- Bestellnummer: 9649280
- Umfang: 576 Seiten
- Gewicht: 422 g
- Maße: 203 x 132 mm
- Stärke: 24 mm
- Erscheinungstermin: 30.6.2020
Achtung: Artikel ist nicht in deutscher Sprache!
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Klappentext
MARSEILLE, 1940. Varian Fry, a Harvard-educated journalist and editor, arrives in France. Recognizing the darkness descending over Europe, he and a group of like-minded New Yorkers formed the Emergency Rescue Committee, helping artists and writers escape from the Nazis and immigrate to the United States. Now, amid the chaos of World War II, and in defiance of restrictive U. S. immigration policies, Fry must procure false passports, secure visas, seek out escape routes through the Pyrenees and by sea, and make impossible decisions about who should be saved, all while under profound pressure-and in a state of irrevocable personal change. In this dazzling work of historical fiction-one that illuminates previously unexplored elements of Fry's story, and has, since its publication, brought us new insight into his life-Julie Orringer, award-winning author of The Invisible Bridge, has crafted a gripping tale of forbidden love, high-stakes adventure, and unimaginable courage.Biografie
Julie Orringer, geboren 1973 in Miami, ausgewachsen in New Orleans und Ann Arbor. Ihre mehrfach ausgezeichneten Short Storys sind bisher in The Yale Review, Best New American Voices, Zoetrope und The Pushcart Prize Anthology erschienen. Sie arbeitet an ihrem ersten Roman. Die Autorin lebt heute in San Francisco. Julie Orringer
The Flight Portfolio
EUR 19,43*