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Charlotte Gray
by Faulks, Sebastian
- Used
- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Very Good
- ISBN 10
- 0091784425
- ISBN 13
- 9780091784423
- Seller
-
Eynsham, Oxfordshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
London: Random House, 1998. First edition. Hardback. Fine/Very Good. The book is in near fine condition, clean, bright and tight. The dust jacket is in very good condition, unclipped and with just a little shelfwear to the top and bottom edges - most noticeable on the spine. The jacket has a few small marks here and there but is overall very sound. 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 of Lavaurette prepare to meet their terrible destiny, the truth of what took place in 'the dark years' is finally revealed.
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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- Bookseller
- Ariadne Books
(GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1302111
- Title
- Charlotte Gray
- Author
- Faulks, Sebastian
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First edition
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0091784425
- ISBN 13
- 9780091784423
- Publisher
- Random House
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1998
- Keywords
- Modern fiction,adventure,second world war
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Fiction;
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Ariadne Books
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Eynsham, Oxfordshire
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