COUP DE GRACE - Softcover

Yourcenar, Marguerite

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0374516316 ISBN 13: 9780374516314

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1981

Synopsis

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.

About this title

Review:

"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

About the Author:

Marguerite Yourcenar (1903-87) wrote plays, stories, poems, and novels, notable Memoirs of Hadrian. She was the first woman to be elected to the Academie Francaise.

About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
• Publication date: 1981
• ISBN 10: 0374516316
• ISBN 13: 9780374516314
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 172