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Coup de Grace
Author: Marguerite Yourcenar; Translated by Grace Frick
Coup de Grace
$17.00
Trade Paperback
About This Book
Page Count
164
On Sale
05/01/1981
Book Details
Set in the Baltic provinces in the aftermath of World War I, Coup de Grace tells the story of an intimacy that grows between three young people hemmed in by civil war: Erick, a Prussian fighting with the White Russians against the Bolsheviks; Conrad, his best friend from childhood; and Sophie, whose unrequited love for Conrad becomes an unbearable burden.
Imprint Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN
9780374516314
In The News
“The eerie effect of [Yourcenar's] prose . . . is all the more extraordinary in that she was not present in Lithuania in the years immediately following World War I. Her accomplishment is like that of Stephen Crane in The Red Badge of Courage or Stendahl's in the Waterloo chapters of The Charterhouse of Parma.” —Louis Auchincloss, The New York Times Book Review