The flight portfolio / Julie Orringer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Orringer, Julie, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fry, Varian, 1907-1967.

World War, 1939-1945--France--Fiction.

World War, 1939-1945.

World War, 1939-1945--Refugees--Fiction.

Jewish refugees--Fiction.

Jewish refugees.

Refugees.

Fry, Varian, 1907-1967--Fiction.

Fry, Varian.

France.

Genre:

Fiction.

Historical fiction.

Biographical fiction.

Physical Description:

562 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2019.

Summary:

"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."--Provided by publisher.

Notes:

"This is a Borzoi book."

Includes bibliographical references.

Local Notes:

Athenaeum copy: Green fund bookplate.

Other Format:

Online version: Orringer, Julie, author. Flight portfolio

ISBN:

9780307959409

0307959406

OCLC:

1049822476