The Verdun affair : a novel
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Dansville Public Library - Adult Fiction
FIC DYB
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FIC DYB
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Naples Library - Adult Fiction
FIC DYB
1 available
FIC DYB
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Victor Farmington Library - Adult Fiction
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Location | Call Number | Status |
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Dansville Public Library - Adult Fiction | FIC DYB | Available |
Naples Library - Adult Fiction | FIC DYB | Available |
Victor Farmington Library - Adult Fiction | DYB | Available |
Walworth-Seely Public Library - Adult Fiction | FIC Dybek | Available |
Williamson Public Library - Adult Fiction | FIC DYB | Available |
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Format
Book
Physical Desc
294 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
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Description
"A sweeping, romantic, and profoundly moving novel, set in Europe in the aftermath of World War I and Los Angeles in the 1950s, about a lonely young man, a beautiful widow, and the amnesiac soldier whose puzzling case binds them together even as it tears them apart. In 1921, two young Americans meet in Verdun, the city in France where one of the most devastating battles of the war was waged. Tom is an orphan from Chicago, a former ambulance driver now gathering bones from the battlefield; Sarah is an expatriate from Boston searching for the husband who wandered off from his division and hasn't been seen since. Quickly, the two fall into a complicated affair against the ghostly backdrop of the ruined city. Months later, Sarah and Tom meet again at the psychiatric ward of an Italian hospital, drawn there by the appearance of a mysterious patient the doctors call Douglas Fairbanks (after the silent film actor)--a shell-shocked soldier with no memory of who he is. At the hospital, Tom and Sarah are joined by Paul, an Austrian journalist with his own interest in the amnesiac. Each is keeping a secret; each has been shaken by the horrors of war. Decades later, Tom, now a successful screenwriter, encounters Paul by chance in LA, still grappling with the questions raised by this gorgeous and incisive novel: How to begin again after unfathomable trauma? How to love after so much loss? And who, in the end, was Douglas Fairbanks? From the bone-strewn fields of Verdun to the bombed-out cafes of Paris, from the riot-torn streets of Bologna to the riotous parties of 1950s Hollywood, The Verdun Affair is a riveting tale of romance, grief, and the far-reaching consequences of a single lie"--,Provided by publisher.
Citations
APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Dybek, N. (2018). The Verdun affair: a novel (First Scribner hardcover edition.). Scribner.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Dybek, Nick. 2018. The Verdun Affair: A Novel. Scribner.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Dybek, Nick. The Verdun Affair: A Novel Scribner, 2018.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Dybek, Nick. The Verdun Affair: A Novel First Scribner hardcover edition., Scribner, 2018.
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