2012, ISBN: 9780270677041

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New York, NY: Other Press, 2012. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Sebestyen, Valerie M. (Maps) and John Gall (Cover. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. x, [2], 494… Plus…

New York, NY: Other Press, 2012. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Sebestyen, Valerie M. (Maps) and John Gall (Cover. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. x, [2], 494, [6] pages. Halftones, black & white, Maps, Frontispiece. Family tree. Author's Note. Selected Bibliography. Signed by author on half-title. Separated by war and her family s disapproval, the young lovers--Janine and Roland lose each other for fifty years. It is a testimony to both Maitland's investigative skills and her devotion to her mother that she successfully traced the lost Roland and was able to reunite him with Janine. Unlike so many stories of love during wartime, theirs has a happy ending. Leslie Maitland is a former award-winning reporter and correspondent for The New York Times who specialized in legal affairs and investigative reporting. After breaking stories on the FBI's undercover "Abscam" inquiry into corruption in Congress, she moved to The New York Times Washington Bureau to cover the Justice Department. Among other projects since leaving The Times, she began extensive research for this nonfiction book, including five reporting trips to Europe, one to Cuba, and another to Canada. A graduate of the University of Chicago and the Harvard Divinity School, she appears regularly on the Diane Rehm Show. Derived from a Kirkus review: Love lost in Alsace during World War II, rediscovered 50 years later in New Jersey. Maitland has seized on her family's far-flung tale of fleeing the Nazis in Europe and energetically made it her own. Having grown up under her mother's heavy emotional baggage, the author came to share the sense of shame and sadness that her mother carried with her as an immigrant to the United States in 1943, a refugee of Nazi Germany. Maitland's mother Janine, along with her German-speaking parents, sister and brother, originally fled in 1938 from Freiburg, having lost everything they owned. From Mulhouse, France, where the teenagers hastily learned French, they moved to Gray, where the family eventually got transit papers to pass through to the Free Zone. The family then landed in Lyon, where Janine, now a young woman, reignited a friendship with a dashing Catholic law student, Roland Arcieri. After falling in love during their brief time together, Janine was yanked away again with her family-to Cuba and then America. Soon married to a successful salesman, Janine did not stop grieving for her first love, and Arcieri apparently tried to find her. However, Janine's father, who wanted her to have a fresh start in America, intercepted his letters. In 1989, Maitland organized a trip back to Freiberg and to Mulhouse with her family. Once her father died, she tracked down Arcieri, who was then living in Montreal. Though the details of the courtship are a little bizarre, especially since the author re-creates her mother's bold seduction of Arcieri, who was married, this is a touching story about the odd collision of fate and will. A poignantly rendered, impeccably researched tale., Other Press, 2012, 3, hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items., 2.5<

2018, ISBN: 9780270677041

hardcover, Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book., Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: Wentworth Press]