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Outrageous Horizon

By: Adrien Bosc

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A beautiful book about the best minds of a generation and the devastation of war - an outrageous voyage from the past that speaks eloquently to our present' Deborah Levy March 1941. A converted cargo ship, the Paul-Lemerle, left Marseille on a voyage to the Caribbean, fleeing Vichy France and the devastation of the war. The ship was filled with immigrants from the East, exiled Spanish Republicans, Jews, stateless persons and decadent artists. Among them were Claude Lévi-Strauss, the painter Wifredo Lam, the writers Anna Seghers and André Breton, and the Russian revolutionary Victor Serge. Can we know the taste of pineapple from listening to travellers' tales? asks Bosc in the follow-up to his bestselling debut. Can we ever feel the sensation of history? Mixing the documentary techniques of history, the imaginative leaps of fiction and the cool analysis of the essay, Bosc takes us from Marseille to Casablanca to Martinique and on to New York, to tell an evocative story of migration, cultural crisis and the intellectual cost of the rise of fascism.

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Serpent's Tail

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178283561X

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9781782835615

Constellation

By: Adrien Bosc

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Constellation

By: Adrien Bosc

On 27 October 1949, Air France's new plane, the Constellation, launched by the extravagant Howard Hughes, welcomed 38 passengers aboard. On October 28, no longer responding to air traffic controllers, the plane disappeared while trying to land on the island of Santa Maria, in the Azores. No one survived. The question Adrien Bosc's novel asks is not so much how, but why? What were the series of tiny incidents that, in sequence, propelled the plane toward Redondo Mountain? And who were the passengers?

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Other Press, LLC

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1590517563

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9781590517567

Outrageous Horizon

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Constellation

A Novel Based on True Events

By: Adrien Bosc

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Constellation

A Novel Based on True Events

By: Adrien Bosc

This best-selling debut novel from one of France’s most exciting young writers is based on the true story of the 1949 disappearance of Air France’s Lockheed Constellation and its famous passengers On October 27, 1949, Air France’s new plane, the Constellation, launched by the extravagant Howard Hughes, welcomed thirty-eight passengers aboard. On October 28, no longer responding to air traffic controllers, the plane disappeared while trying to land on the island of Santa Maria, in the Azores. No one survived. The question Adrien Bosc’s novel asks is not so much how, but why? What were the series of tiny incidents that, in sequence, propelled the plane toward Redondo Mountain? And who were the passengers? As we recognize Marcel Cerdan, the famous boxer and lover of Edith Piaf, and we remember the musical prodigy Ginette Neveu, whose tattered violin would be found years later, the author ties together their destinies: “Hear the dead, write their small legend, and offer to these thirty-eight men and women, like so many constellations, a life and a story.”

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1590517571

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Constellation

roman

By: Adrien Bosc

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roman

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Le 27 octobre 1949, l'avion Constellation doit accueillir à son bord 37 passagers, dont le champion du monde de boxe Marcel Cerdan et la violoniste virtuose Ginette Neveu. Le 28 octobre, l'avion ne répond plus à la tour de contrôle. Il s'est écrasé dans l'archipel des Açores, ne faisant aucun survivant. A. Bosc interroge les infimes causalités ayant abouti à ce drame. Premier roman."--Memento.

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