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Cosimo's French and Cuban passports put a cloud of suspicion over him as events elsewhere in the world play out. Algeria is in open revolt against France. Freedom Riders are being assaulted in Mississippi, and the Bay of Pigs debacle is front-page news. Cosimo confronts nightmares and waking terrors rooted in the horror he experienced during the Great War of 1914-1918. His friends-students, librarians, shopkeepers, laborers, lawyers, bankers, and even a parrot-coalesce around this elderly French artist as he attempts to return to what remains of his shattered life.
His new friends feel empathy for his impoverished condition, but his unconventional actions and uncompromising ethics confuse them. He creates charming drawings he refuses to sell and paints a house simply for the pleasure of making a difference. In the process he forever alters the lives of those who thought they were helping him.
Pages | 200 |
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Dimensions | 229 x 152 |
Date Published | 30 Oct 2019 |
Publisher | Texas Christian University Press |
Subject/s | Fiction   |