CHARLOTTE GRAY.** [Author SIGNED copy.**]
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- ISBN 10
- 0091784425
- ISBN 13
- 9780091784423
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It is 1942.London is blacked out,but France is under a great darkness,as the Vichy regime clings ever closer to the Nazi occupier in their danse macabre.From Edinburgh,Charlotte Gray,a volatile but determined young woman,travels south.
In London she conceives a dangerous passion for an English airman.Charlotte goes to France on an errand for a British organisation helping the Resistance and for her own private purposes.Unknown to her,she is also being manipulated by people with no regard for her safety.As the weeks go by Charlotte finds that the struggle for France's soul is intimately linked to her battle to take control of her own life.
'Charlotte Gray' examines the lost domains of the past,the limits of memory and the redemptive power of art.It is also a brilliant evocation of life in Occupied France,filled with memorable characters,such as Julien Levade,the local resistance leader,and his father,a painter and reformed libertine.
As the people in the village of Lavaurette prepare to meet their terrible destiny,the truth of what took place in 'the dark years' is finally revealed.These harrowing scenes are presented with the compassion and narrative power that readers will recall from 'Birdsong'.
With 'Charlotte Gray',Sebastian Faulks concludes his French trilogy of novels which began with 'The Girl at the Lion d'Or' and 'Birdsong'.
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Synopsis
A worthy successor to Birdsong' Alain de BottonIn 1942, Charlotte Gray, a young scottish woman, goes to Occupied France on a dual mission: to run an apparently simple errand for a British special oeprations group and to search for her lover, an English airman who has gone missing in action. In the small town of Lavaurette, Sebastian Faulks presents a microcosm of France and its agony in 'the black years'. Here is the full range of collaboration, from the tacit to the enthusistic, as well as examples of extraordinary courage and altruism. Through the local resistance chief Julien, Charlotte meets his father, a Jewish painter whose inspiration has failed him.In a series of shocking narrative climaxes in which the full extent of French collusion in the Nazi holocaust is delineated, Faulks brings the story to a resolution of redemptive love. In the delicacy of its writing, the intimacy of its characterisation and its powerful narrative scenes of harrowing public events, Charlotte Gray is a worthy successor to Birdsong.
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- Title
- CHARLOTTE GRAY.** [Author SIGNED copy.**]
- Author
- FAULKS**, SEBASTIAN:
- Book Condition
- Used - FINE.
- Jacket Condition
- FINE.
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn.
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0091784425
- ISBN 13
- 9780091784423
- Publisher
- LONDON.HUTCHINSON,1998.
- Place of Publication
- London
- This edition first published
- 1998
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