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
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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. --
Library | Call Number | Status |
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Bayport Public Library | FICTION ORR | Fiction Collection |
Hardwood Creek Library (Forest Lake) | FICTION ORR | Fiction Collection |
Park Grove Library (Cottage Grove) | FICTION ORR | Fiction Collection |
R.H. Stafford Library (Woodbury) | FICTION ORR | Fiction Collection |