The Flight Portfolio, Julie Orringer
The Flight Portfolio, Julie Orringer
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The Flight Portfolio

Author: Julie Orringer

Narrator: Edoardo Ballerini

Unabridged: 19 hr 29 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Recorded Books

Published: 05/07/2019


Synopsis

The long-awaited new work from the best-selling author of The Invisible Bridge takes us back to occupied Europe in this gripping historical novel based on the true story of Varian Fry's extraordinary attempt to save the work, and the lives, of Jewish artists fleeing the Holocaust In 1940, Varian Fry--a Harvard educated American journalist--traveled to Marseille carrying three thousand dollars and a list of imperiled artists and writers he hoped to rescue within a few weeks. Instead, he ended up staying in France for thirteen months, working under the veil of a legitimate relief organization to procure false documents, amass emergency funds, and set up an underground railroad that led over the Pyrenees, into Spain, and finally to Lisbon, where the refugees embarked for safer ports. Among his many clients were Hannah Arendt, Franz Werfel, Andre Breton, Max Ernst, Marcel Duchamp, and Marc Chagall. The Flight Portfolio opens at the Chagalls' ancient stone house in Gordes, France, as the novel's hero desperately tries to persuade them of the barbarism and tragedy descending on Europe. Masterfully crafted, exquisitely written, impossible to put down, this is historical fiction of the very first order, and resounding confirmation of Orringer's gifts as a novelist.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Kate on October 02, 2020

Undoubtedly will make my year-end top ten.......more

Goodreads review by Jennifer on May 20, 2020

The Flight Portfolio, an incredible layered, important work of fiction with a touch of humor, is in some ways a Holocaust story, but more than that, it poses the question, is one person’s life more valuable than another. This survival story is about the Jews, the artists and their art, the people of......more

Goodreads review by Candace on February 09, 2019

I did not want this book to end. Don't Google Varian Fry before reading "The Flight Portfolio." Let the novel surprise you. Varian arrives in Vichy France in 1940, with $3000, a visa for a few weeks, and a list of Jewish artists he was to attempt to rescue. Fry is a Harvard graduate and a journalist o......more