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Charlotte Gray
By
Sebastian Faulks and
Samuel West (narrator)
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Random House
Publication date
February 1, 1999
Binding
Cassette/Spoken Word
Edition
Abridged
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9780375405983
ISBN-10
0375405984
Dimensions
1.75 by 4.75 by 7.25 in.
Weight
0.45 lbs.
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Publisher Out of Stock Indefinitely
Original list price
$25.95
Other format details
audio
§As reported by publisher
Summaries and Reviews
Summary
In a story reminiscent of the best-selling Birdsong, a young Scottish woman, who falls in love with a World War II RAF pilot shortly before his plane is lost over France, joins the Resistance movement to find him, only to discover a larger meaning in her new role. Read by Samuel West. Simultaneous.
Amazon.com description: Product Description: 4 cassettes / 6 hours
Read by Samuel West
Faulks's first novel since the extraordinary success of Birdsong has the same passion, power and breadth of vision. Set in England and France during the darkest days of World War II, Charlotte Gray, like Birdsong, depicts a complex love affair that is both shaped and thwarted by war.
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It is 1942. London is blacked out, but France is under a greater darkness, as the occupying Nazi forces encroach ever closer in a tense waiting game. Charlotte Gray, a volatile but determined young woman, travels south from Edinburgh. Working in London, she has a brief but intense love affair with an RAF pilot. When his plane is lost over France, she contrives to go there herself to work in the Resistance and to search for him - but then is unwilling to leave as she finds that the struggle for the country's fate is intimately linked to her own battle to take control of her life.
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Presented with the same narrative force as Birdsong, Charlotte Gray is an examination of lost paradises, politics without belief, the limits of memory, the redemptive power of art and the existence of hope beyond reason.  It is also a brilliant evocation of life in Occupied France and, more significantly, a revelation of the appalling price many Frenchmen paid to survive in unoccupied so-called Free France.
Read by Samuel West
Faulks's first novel since the extraordinary success of Birdsong has the same passion, power and breadth of vision. Set in England and France during the darkest days of World War II, Charlotte Gray, like Birdsong, depicts a complex love affair that is both shaped and thwarted by war.
       Â
It is 1942. London is blacked out, but France is under a greater darkness, as the occupying Nazi forces encroach ever closer in a tense waiting game. Charlotte Gray, a volatile but determined young woman, travels south from Edinburgh. Working in London, she has a brief but intense love affair with an RAF pilot. When his plane is lost over France, she contrives to go there herself to work in the Resistance and to search for him - but then is unwilling to leave as she finds that the struggle for the country's fate is intimately linked to her own battle to take control of her life.
       Â
Presented with the same narrative force as Birdsong, Charlotte Gray is an examination of lost paradises, politics without belief, the limits of memory, the redemptive power of art and the existence of hope beyond reason.  It is also a brilliant evocation of life in Occupied France and, more significantly, a revelation of the appalling price many Frenchmen paid to survive in unoccupied so-called Free France.
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