The Light from the Dark Side of the Moon - Gautreau, Norman G
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92-year-old Henry Budge defies most of his family by escaping a rehab hospital to make his way to France for the ceremonies of the 70th observance of D-Day. Before he dies, he hopes to at last address a grief he has allowed to simmer for decades and to rekindle memories of âElodie Bedier, the French Resistance fighter with whom he fell in love 70 years earlier, as a way of confronting his grief at losing her. During his return journey, he relives events of 1944: being wounded as he parachutes into Normandy; falling in love with âElodie who nurses him back to health; fighting the Germans…mehr

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92-year-old Henry Budge defies most of his family by escaping a rehab hospital to make his way to France for the ceremonies of the 70th observance of D-Day. Before he dies, he hopes to at last address a grief he has allowed to simmer for decades and to rekindle memories of âElodie Bedier, the French Resistance fighter with whom he fell in love 70 years earlier, as a way of confronting his grief at losing her. During his return journey, he relives events of 1944: being wounded as he parachutes into Normandy; falling in love with âElodie who nurses him back to health; fighting the Germans alongside her and her resistance companions; and finally abandoning the war to rescue a group of children from the Holocaust, choices that leave Henry at risk of a firing squad for desertion and âElodie vulnerable to fatal condemnation from her compatriots. When he arrives back in France, Henry makes several shocking discoveries that shake the very foundations of the memories he's had of âElodie all these years and he is left to wonder about the love he has had for âElodie: what rests on true memory vs. what is based on countless imagined conversations over the decades?
Autorenporträt
0 false 18 pt 18 pt 0 0 false false false A native New Englander with a life-long love of the sea, Norman's first novel, Sea Room, won the prestigious Massachusetts Book Award for Fiction in 2003, was an "All-City-Reads" choice in several cities, and was a BookSense(R) selection. He has since written several more critically acclaimed, prize-winning novels. An avid reader, poet, sailor, runner and cyclist, Norman lives outside Boston with his wife Susan and three cats.