Author : Simone Signoret
Publisher : Random House (NY)
ISBN 13 : 9780394549279
Total Pages : 444 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)
Book Synopsis Adieu, Volodya by : Simone Signoret
Download or read book Adieu, Volodya written by Simone Signoret and published by Random House (NY). This book was released on 1986 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This novel by the celebrated French actress, published here posthumously, follows the fortunes of some Jewish emigre families. Set in Paris between the world wars, her story is of people who find ways to survive both the memories of past persecution in Eastern Europe and the threats of Nazism on the rise in France. Numerous characters, most connected with the garment and theater industries, are brought in, but only Nicole, the nouveau riche neurotic who has created both a new identity and a new past for herself, seems to be flesh and blood. The others, despite some lively dialogue, are two-dimensional and unreal. But a sense of the era does emerge, with political events skillfully interwoven. --Laurie Spector Sullivan, Library Journal.