The Flight Portfolio
A novel (Vintage Contemporaries)
by Julie Orringer
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appears in Historical Fiction and Fiction.
MARSEILLE, 1940. Varian Fry, a Harvardeducated journalist and editor, arrives in France. Recognizing the darkness descending over Europe, he and a group of likeminded New Yorkers formed the Emergency Rescue Committee, helping artists and writers escape from the Nazis and immigrate to the United States. Now, amid the chaos of World War II, and in ...
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