· the flight portfolio by Julie Orringer ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 7, An elegant, meditative novelistic reconstruction of critical years in the life of Varian Fry, the American classicist who is honored at Yad Vashem as “righteous among the nations” for his work rescuing victims of the Holocaust. The Flight Portfolio is a historical fiction novel by Julie Orringer based on the life of Varian Fry. In , France is occupied by Germany and the world is enveloped in another war. Varian Fry, an American journalist, travels to Marseille, France w/5(K). The "flight portfolio" in the title of Julie Orringer's new novel, "The Flight Portfolio", is a collection of paintings, drawings, and other artistic endeavors put together by fleeing artists and authors in Marseilles, France in They had come into what-was-then Vichy, France and were trying to /5().
The Flight Portfolio Julie Orringer, Knopf Doubleday pp. ISBN Summary 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. The Flight Portfolio by Julie Orringer has an overall rating of Positive based on 14 book reviews. The Flight Portfolio Summary. Thanks for exploring this SuperSummary Plot Summary of "The Flight Portfolio" by Julie Orringer. A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality study guides that feature detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, quotes, and essay topics.
“The novel exudes atmosphere Through cinematically detailed descriptions [and] multilayered, nuanced characters both real and imagined, Orringer has breathed life into France The Flight Portfoliocompellingly juxtaposes the conflicts and tragedies of a world at war with the equally compelling inner wars of the human soul.”. Set during the Holocaust and World War II, Julie Orringer’s novel The Flight Portfolio () retells the true story of Varian Fry, an editor and journalist who moved to Marseilles, France to join the Emergency Rescue Committee (ERC). The ERC embarked on a multinational rescue mission, finding Jewish and political dissident artists and intellectuals all over Europe and moving them outside Hitler’s grasp. The mind of the Varian Fry of “The Flight Portfolio” is Orringer’s mind, and how, in the war between history and imagination, can we deny her that? Literature is everywhere rife with.
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