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ReprisalEntry/Object ID
2018.017.028Description
A novel by Grace Zaring Stone, aka Ethel Vance.
"A German officer of occupation in the Brittany village of Rusquec is murdered; twenty hostages are destined to be shot if the murderer is not found within three days. The book centers around six people and their reactions to this muder and reprisal: Andre Galle, formerly a Socialist minister whose idealist efforts at appeasement have virtually stripped him of all democratic vitality; Edouard Schneider, whose opportunist traits have obtained him a high position ni the Vichy government; Francoise, Galle's twenety five year old daughter, bewildered by her father's defeatism and Edouard's brutal cynicism, but tinctured by their feelings; Blaise, Galle's eighteen year old son, whose politicla vacillations make him an uncertain quantity; Simon Astley, the young American painter who loves Francoise, a man who represents the intelligent and sensitive outsider caught up in the turmoil of international conflict; and Maurice, Galle's butler, a loyal member of the household thought he was once convicted of murder."
Front flyleaf bears a stamp from "Patients Library, Bird S. Coler Hospital, Welfare Island, NY" as well as a note written in pencil, "Return to Anne Fuller, February 10, 1979."Collection
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Stone, Grace ZaringDate Published
1942