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Buy this book on-line FAULKS**, SEBASTIAN: : CHARLOTTE GRAY.** [Author SIGNED copy.**]LONDON.HUTCHINSON,1998. ISBN 0091784425.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED,1st edn.FINE/FINE.
No owner inscrptn,but author's neat, handwritten black ink signature - without dedication - to title page,and no price- clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, photographic illustrated upper wrap with red,blue+black lettering; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top edge bright and clean,apart from a small thumb mark/spot towards head of spine/ backstrip,fore-edges similar,again,apart from a small thumb mark; contents bright, tight and near pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners. Bright,clean,publisher's original,plain dark blue cloth boards with bright,crisp, blocked gilt letters to spine/backstrip and dark blue endpapers.UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,SIGNED, 1st edn,3-393pp [paginated] includes Pts 1-4; plus [unpaginated] half-title,SIGNED title page,a dedication and author's note to rear.
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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