The flight portfolio /
Orringer, Julie
The flight portfolio / Julie Orringer - First edition - 562 p. ; 25 cm
Taking us back to occupied Europe in this historical novel based on the true story of Varian Fry's extraordinary attempt to save the work, and the lives, of Jewish artists fleeing the Holocaust 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.
9780307959409
Fry, Varian 1907-1967 --Fiction
World War, 1939-1945--France--Fiction
World War, 1939-1945--Refugees--Fiction
Jewish refugees--Fiction
Historical fiction
Biographical fiction
FIC ORR
The flight portfolio / Julie Orringer - First edition - 562 p. ; 25 cm
Taking us back to occupied Europe in this historical novel based on the true story of Varian Fry's extraordinary attempt to save the work, and the lives, of Jewish artists fleeing the Holocaust 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.
9780307959409
Fry, Varian 1907-1967 --Fiction
World War, 1939-1945--France--Fiction
World War, 1939-1945--Refugees--Fiction
Jewish refugees--Fiction
Historical fiction
Biographical fiction
FIC ORR
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