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Title: The Flight Portfolio

Author : Julie Orringer

Pages : pages

Publisher : Knopf

Language : eng

ISBN-10 : 41552083

ISBN-13 : 9780307959409

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The Flight Portfolio BY Julie Orringer

Read Online and Download The Flight Portfolio. The long-awaited new work from the best-selling author of The Invisible Bridge takes us back to occupied Europe in this gripping historical novel based on the true story of Varian Fry's extraordinary attempt to save the work, and the lives, of Jewish artists fleeing the Holocaust.In 1940, Varian Fry?a Harvard-educated American journalist?traveled to Marseille carrying three thousand dollars and a list of imperiled artists and writers he hoped to rescue within a few weeks. Instead, he ended up staying in France for thirteen months, working under the veil of a legitimate relief organization to procure false documents, amass emergency funds, and set up an underground railroad that led over the Pyrenees, into Spain, and finally to Lisbon, where the refugees embarked for safer ports. Among his many clients were Hannah Arendt, Franz Werfel, Andr? Breton, Max Ernst, Marcel Duchamp, and Marc Chagall.The Flight Portfolio opens at the Chagalls' ancient stone house in Gordes, France, as the .

The Flight Portfolio by Julie Orringer

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