The last day of the war / Judith Claire Mitchell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mitchell, Judith Claire, 1952-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Armenian Genocide, 1915-1923--Fiction.

Armenian Genocide, 1915-1923.

World War, 1914-1918--Fiction.

World War, 1914-1918.

Americans--France--Fiction.

Americans.

France.

Armenian Americans--Fiction.

Armenian Americans.

Paris (France)--Fiction.

Paris (France).

Jewish women--Fiction.

Jewish women.

Massacres--Fiction.

Massacres.

Soldiers--Fiction.

Soldiers.

Revenge--Fiction.

Revenge.

Genre:

Fiction.

Love stories.

War stories.

Physical Description:

xii, 366 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Pantheon Books, [2004]

Summary:

This exciting debut novel is the love story of a Jewish girl and an Armenian-American soldier who together enter a maze of underground politics at the conclusion of the First World War.

Yael Weiss, an eighteen-year-old from St. Louis, reinvents herself as the twenty-five-year-old Methodist Yale White when she travels to Paris with the YMCA to work in a soldiers' canteen. Dub Hagopian -- the doughboy she has a carried a torch for all the way across the Atlantic -- is at once the patriotic child of immigrants from Rhode Island and, covertly, a member of Erinyes, an organization dedicated to avenging the Armenian massacres of 1915. In her jaunty, engaging style, Mitchell captures the atmosphere of political carnival surrounding the Paris Peace Conference, where Yale, Dub, and their crowd gather, bursting with both the passionate ideals and the devil-may-care energy of youth. When they decamp to a chateau outside Paris, where Erinyes is hatching a radical plan and Armenian war orphans are billeted, Yale and Dub will face the largest decisions of their young lives. A beautiful love story, The Last Day of the War is also a tragicomic farce about the workings of history and a testament to the moral fortitude of men and women swept up in the tide of their extraordinary times.

Contents:

1. The Split Skirt 3

2. Leaving 6

3. Library Crimes 10

4. Clowns 13

5. The Weight of the Package 16

6. Dime-Novel Stuff 21

7. A Woman's Name 27

8. Crazy 30

9. The Denominations 35

10. Along with Those Lies 39

1. The Train to Providence 43

2. Stops Along the Way 48

3. Curses 50

4. The Holy Books Do Not Burn 57

5. Ramela 66

6. Boston 73

1. The Espagne 79

2. A as in Amo 84

3. A Tarnished Woman 88

4. Animal, Vegetable, Mineral 94

5. Mind and Matter 96

6. Should This Behavior Continue 99

7. The Last Day of the War 104

8. The White Sisters' Bowling League of America 108

9. Counting to One Hundred 113

An Interlude: Meanwhile, over in France 119

1. The First Day of the Peace 125

2. A Dive Called Lulu's 127

3. Baptisms 134

4. Trumpets 137

5. Paper Ladles 140

6. Sheep 145

7. Un Honneur Grand 149

1. Cherchez la Femme 157

2. Sisterhood 163

3. It Would Be So Us 168

4. The Little Vuitton 173

5. An Excellent Haut-Brion 177

6. His You're Welcome 184

7. Grips 186

8. Senlis 188

9. Peacock Eggs 196

10. Parlor Games 205

1. The Hotel le Marais 215

2. Yah-el 218

3. An Ugly Look 224

4. To Whom It May Concern 228

5. A Girl's Adventures 231

6. While the Getting Is Good 235

1. Modern Art 247

2. Springtime in Paris 254

3. The Rest of Their Lives Will Be Like This 259

4. Saints and Virgins 263

5. Precious Cargo 265

6. Springtime in Berlin 268

7. The Gare de l'Est 275

8. Tea 278

9. St. Petersburg 282

10. Loose Ends 285

1. Lullabies 291

2. Exclusively Our Red 297

3. Yale, He Says 304

4. April 23, 1919: Nine a.m. at the Chateau 307

5. Nine a.m. Elsewhere 311

6. A Flashback: The First Day of the War (or, The Hungry Assassin) 314

7. A French Sailor Suit 317

8. The Assassination of Kerim Bey 319

1. Another Last Day of the War 329

2. Going West 337

3. Magic 340

4. Dinner That Night 343

5. How the Jews Got Their Names 345

6. Requiem 349.

ISBN:

0375421661

OCLC:

53231827