World Without End
by Francine du Plessix Gray
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The novel begins and ends in Nantucket, but roams forty years of American culture from the 1940's to the 1980's through the lives of three friends whose paths diverge and converge. Edmund, Claire, and Sophie, friends--and sometimes lovers--for thirty years, travel to the Soviet Union, hoping to plan for the last third of their lives and to resolve the struggles and confusions of the previous three decades.Tags
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This book tells the story of 3 friends. They visit the Soviet Union and in the course of the visit, flashbacks & reminiscences tell their story. It is a philosophical love story, mostly, with other questions of aesthetics & ethics included too. I didn't care so much about the characters so that made the book slow going. It also reads as somewhat dated in 2008.
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Francine du Plessix was born in Warsaw, Poland on September 25, 1930. She received a bachelor's degree in philosophy from Barnard College in 1952. For two summers she studied at the Black Mountain College in North Carolina. After writing radio reports at the United Press for two years, she moved to Paris to report on fashion for the French show more magazine Réalités. She returned to the United States and married the painter Cleve Gray in 1957. She wrote both fiction and nonfiction. Her novels included Lovers and Tyrants, World Without End, October Blood, and The Queen's Lover. Her nonfiction works included Divine Disobedience: Profiles in Catholic Radicalism, Hawaii: The Sugar-Coated Fortress, Soviet Women: Walking the Tightrope, and biographies of the poet Louise Colet, the Marquis de Sade, Simone Weil, and Madame de Staël. Them: A Memoir of Parents won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 2006. She died from complications of congestive heart failure on January 13, 2018 at the age of 88. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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