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Description edit
The wife of a Resistance worker in Nazi-occupied Belgium falls in love with a wounded American pilot, forcing her to struggle with trust and betrayal. By the author of Strange Fits of Passion. Reprint. Tour. NYT. PW.
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Characters/People edit
- Henri Daussois: Reluctant member of the Belgian resistance and husband of Claire.
- Claire Daussois: Wife of Henri, Lover of Ted
- Jean Benoit: School boy who finds Ted in the woods after the bomber crashed and brings him to the home of Claire and Henri Daussois.
- Antoine: Add a description of this character.
- Theodore Brice: American bomber pilot, lover of Claire
- Leon Balle
- Marcel
- Madame Daussois
- Dussart
- Frances Brice: Ted's older sister
- Monsieur Gillian
- Tom
- Matthew Brice: Ted's younger brother
- Odette
- Shulman
- Rees
- Mason
- Monsieur Dauvin
- Bastien
- Madame Rosenthal
- Ekberg
- Mcnulty
- Emilie
- Tripp
- Therese
- Warren
- Charmaine
- Van Der Elst
- Baker
- Brice
- Pierre
Quotes edit
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“...the Germans were eating and drinking at L'Hotel de Ville in St. Laurent, as they did at every noon hour, and had probably had so much beer to drink already they hadn't seen or heard the plane. It was meant to be a joke: The Belgian beer was the country's best defensive weapon.”
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“She thought of the boys barely men who died unthinkable deaths far from home; of the men and women of her own country tortured to death simply because of the accident of their birth. No matter how long she thought about it, how deeply it had entered her life, how long it lay in her house, she did not understand how this thing had swept over them, how their lives had been forever altered. And if there ever came a time where she might understand what had happened to the Belgians, to the people of her own village, she would never be able to fathom why young men came from so far away to defend a country about which they knew nothing.”
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“The war was being fought in kitchens and attics all over Belgium.”
First Sentence edit
THE PILOT PAUSED AT THE EDGE OF THE WOOD, WHERE already it was dark, oak-dark at midday.
Authors & Contributors edit
- Anita Shreve (Author)
First Edition edit
Original Language: English
Publisher: Little
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1995
ISBN: 0316789992
Page Count: 240
Publisher: Little
Country: USA
Publication Date: 1995
ISBN: 0316789992
Page Count: 240
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- Library of Congress: Add the Library of Congress Classification.
- Dewey: 813.54
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- Resistance (IMDb): (2003)
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