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ISBN-10: 0753103834
ISBN-13: 9780753103838
May 1998
Publisher: Trafalgar Square
Unabridged
Isis Series
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Synopsis
This richly atmospheric and often heart-pounding literary thriller--one of Alan Furst's best--takes place in occupied France during World War II. The tense story involves a second-rate movie producer who becomes a double agent, the beautiful actress whom he loves, and questions of loyalty and betrayal.
| Details | | Series: | Isis Series |
| Size | | Height: | 9.3 in | | Width: | 6.5 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 16.0 oz |
Industry Reviews
"Alan Furst creates a persuasive venue for this story of an ordinary man whose small, hesitant gesture of resistance lands him in a mortally dangerous game of intelligence and counterintelligence."
New York Times - Richard B. Berstein (06/05/1996)
"[S]mart, stylish, and soulful. Above all, it's the atmosphere that makes the book irresistible."
Salon - Maria Russo (04/02/2001)
"[C]ombines so much broad historical erudition with such genuine humanity that it ought to be made required reading. Once again, Furst loads the entire burden of an aspect of the war on the shoulders of a single character, then scrutinizes that character as he changes. It's the old rat-in-the-maze game, played for very high stakes....Furst has somehow discovered the perfect venue for uniting the European literary tragedy with the Anglo-American spy thriller. Nobody does it better."
Kirkus (03/01/1996)
"Furst is enraptured by the noir sensibility..., and what he's created in this book is a romantic sensibility, rather than a fully engaged and engaging hero. Still, THE WORLD AT NIGHT is very well-executed, and Furst, whose specialty is his research and recreation of the World War II era, breathes life even into scenes that have a newsreel familiarity....[T]he writing here is excellent....Furst writes with a sure hand, and THE WORLD AT NIGHT has a fresh feel, as if he were the first ever to write about all this."
Philadelphia Inquirer - David Walton (06/02/1996)
"[T]he thriller plot of THE WORLD AT NIGHT lights up the dark element it moves through, in this case the national agony and moral cloudiness of occupied France in World War II....[It] earns a comparison with the serious entertainments of Graham Greene and John LeCarre. The action...is taut and melodramatic....Using the pleasurable devices of its genre, it offers a lot more: an appreciation of France that is at once passionate, graceful, and cold, an evocation of French virtues and vices under terrible testing, and a shrewd intuition..."
Los Angeles Times Book Review - Richard Eder (06/02/1996)
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