Claire Marvel (Romans, Nouvelles, Recits (Domaine Etranger)) (French Edition) - Softcover

Schwartz, John Burnham

Softcover

ISBN 10: 2226138765 ISBN 13: 9782226138767

Publisher: ALBIN MICHEL, 2003

Synopsis

358pages. in8. broché. Die-hard romantics will find it hard to resist John Burnham Schwartz's novel Claire Marvel. Reminiscent of Erich Segal's Love Story, this is the tale of a great yet tragic love, one foretold in the novel's first sentence: "There was before her and now there is after her, and that is the difference in my life. " Boy (Julian Rose) meets beautiful girl (Claire Marvel) in a spring shower in 1985 in Cambridge, Massachusetts, where they attend Harvard as graduate students. They fall in love and spend a difficult yet idyllic time in the French countryside, but she is stolen away by Julian's treacherously suave advisor. Julian flees Boston for his hometown of New York City, where he starts a new life. He and Claire encounter each other again years later, and eventually Claire comes back to Julian, but only indirectly, again in France. -Susan Biskeborn

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From the Inside Flap

and woman meet, love each other, and are consumed. It’s a story as old as romance itself, but in this enthralling novel John Burnham Schwartz tells it with heart-stopping new immediacy. In the middle of a rainstorm Julian Rose, a self-effacing Harvard graduate student, takes refuge beneath a girl’s yellow umbrella. The girl, the woman, is Claire Marvel, lovely, mercurial, mired in family tragedy. She is the last person someone like Julian should fall in love with. But he does.

What ensues is a great and difficult passion strewn with obstacles–not least those arising from Claire and Julian’s disparate characters. And as these young people find and lose each other, then seek each other anew, Schwartz places romantic love within an entire continuum of attachments that require the full reserves of our openness and courage.

From the Back Cover

“Rich, passionate prose that echoes the intense feeling between young lovers.” --Chicago Tribune

“In this age of glorious literary excess, of high conceptualizing and big novelizing, it takes some courage to write a simple love story. . . . John Burnham Schwartz takes the risk in his third novel, writing spare, elegant prose.” --The New York Times Book Review

“You’ll want to finish this most seductive book in one sitting. Don’t. Put it down and let it color your dreamscape. The characters are that vivid, the book so wise you will be moved and enriched.” --Frank McCourt

“A beautifully told love story.” --Harper’s Bazaar

About this edition

• Publisher: ALBIN MICHEL
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 2226138765
• ISBN 13: 9782226138767
• Binding: Paperback