The last summer of the world
By: Emily Mitchell.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: W.W. Norton & Co.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 390
ISBN-13: 9780393064872
Subjects: Steichen, Edward, -- 1879-1973 -- Fiction.; Photographers -- Fiction.; France -- History -- 1914-1940 -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: In the summer of 1918, with the Germans threatening Paris, Edward Steichen arrives in France to photograph the war for the American army. Flying over the fields of France, Steichen struggles to understand what went wrong in his seemingly idyllic life. His search for answers takes him into his own complex past, toward a painful self-understanding and the discovery of new ways of seeing the world.