The Two Hotel Francforts

Author: David Leavitt

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  • : $19.99 AUD
  • : 9781408843215
  • : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
  • : Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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  • : November 2014
  • : 198mm X 129mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : 19.99
  • : January 2015
  • : January 2019
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Barcode 9781408843215
9781408843215

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Description

It is the summer of 1940, and Lisbon is one of the only neutral ports left in Europe - a city filled with spies, crowned heads and refugees of every nationality, tipping back absinthe to while away the time until their escape. Awaiting safe passage to New York on the S. S. Manhattan, two couples meet: Pete and Julia Winters, expatriate Americans fleeing their sedate life in Paris; and Edward and Iris Freleng, elegant, independently wealthy, bohemian, and beset by the social and sexual anxieties of their class. Swept up in the tumult, the hidden currents of the lives of these four characters - Julia's status as a Jew, Pete and Edward's affair, Iris's increasingly desperate efforts to save her tenuous marriage - begin to come loose. This journey will change the four of them irrevocably, as Europe sinks into war.

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A taut and subtle historical novel of two couples caught up in a world at war, from the acclaimed author of The Indian Clerk

Author description

David Leavitt's fiction has been a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Prize, the National Book Critics' Circle Award and the LA Times Fiction Prize, and shortlisted for the IMPAC Dublin Award. His writing has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Times, Harper's and Vogue, among other publications. He lives in Gainesville, Florida, where he is Professor of English at the University of Florida and edits the literary magazine Subtropics.