Author: YOURCENAR, MARGUERITE (1903-1987)
Title: Coup de grâce / Marguerite Yourcenar ; translated from the French by Grace Frick in collaboration with the author
Description: London : Black Swan 1984. Limited Edition. Fine copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight. bright. clean and strong. Physical description: 111 p. : 2ocm. Notes: One of 750 copies privately printed at Christmas 1984. Originally published by Aidan Ellis Publishing in 1983. Summary: 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. Subject: Modern fiction. FICTION / General. Other names: Frick. Grace. Genre: Novel. Weight in Kg appr.:

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