The flight portfolio : a novel

Title
The flight portfolio : a novel

Author
Orringer, Julie author.

ISBN
9780307959409

Edition
1st ed.

Physical Description
562 pages ; 25 cm.

Personal Subject
Fry, Varian, 1907-1967-Fiction.

Subject Term
World War, 1939-1945 -- France -- Fiction.
 
World War, 1939-1945 -- Refugees -- Fiction.
 
Jewish refugees -- Fiction.
 
Rescues -- Fiction.

Genre
Historical fiction.
 
Biographical fiction.

Summary
In 1940, Varian Fry--a Harvard educated American journalist--traveled to Marseille carrying three thousand dollars and a list of imperiled artists and writers he hoped to rescue within a few weeks. Instead, he ended up staying in France for thirteen months, working under the veil of a legitimate relief organization to procure false documents, amass emergency funds, and set up an underground railroad that led over the Pyrenees, into Spain, and finally to Lisbon, where the refugees embarked for safer ports. Among his many clients were Hannah Arendt, Franz Werfel, Andre Breton, Max Ernst, Marcel Duchamp, and Marc Chagall. The Flight Portfolio opens at the Chagalls' ancient stone house in Gordes, France, as the novel's hero desperately tries to persuade them of the barbarism and tragedy descending on Europe. Masterfully crafted, exquisitely written, impossible to put down, this is historical fiction of the very first order, and resounding confirmation of Orringer's gifts as a novelist. --


LibraryCall NumberStatus
Bayport Public LibraryFICTION ORRFiction Collection
Hardwood Creek Library (Forest Lake)FICTION ORRFiction Collection
Park Grove Library (Cottage Grove)FICTION ORRFiction Collection
R.H. Stafford Library (Woodbury)FICTION ORRFiction Collection