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The Sun Sets Twice

The Sun Sets Twice

Douglas Charles Peake

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Douglas Charles Peake
Año de edición:
2026
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Ficción moderna y contemporánea
ISBN:
9798233322099
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Book Two of this three-volume historical drama picks up the story of four friends who met in Paris in 1900, were separated by circumstance, and who now begin to reconnect in 1905.Suzanne de Lamothe, Jennie Latmore, Geste D’Arcourt, and Charlie Clark have moved on with their lives since Book One.Suzanne, now a prostitute of high standing working in an apartment in Paris’ Latin Quarter, has an especially important client who wants to set her up as his exclusive mistress. Charlie is in Vienna receiving treatment from Sigmund Freud for heroin addiction. He meets and falls in love with Marta Schrattenthaler,daughter of a rear admiral in the Austro-Hungarian Royal War Navy. Geste, still in love with Jennie but having been unable to find her after his return from the American Southwest, accepts commissions to paint vignettes from the French colonies. His world travels include spending many months in Saigon and traversing the Sahara. Meanwhile, Jennie has abandoned Paris for Nice, working in a hat shop and gradually gaining a substantial following as a portrait artist. It’s in Nice that Geste finally reconnects with her. The four individuals, each of whom gets a starring role in alternating chapters, navigate life’s fortunes and heartbreaking tragedies.

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