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A Farewell in Paris Kindle Edition

by Paul A. Myers (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
3.1 3.1 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
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It’s 1928 Paris and literary agent Bill Lawrence is successfully selling the work of Left Bank writers back to New York from his sumptuous apartment on Île Saint-Louis overlooking the Seine River. Kurt Eckhart, a Berlin correspondent, asks Bill’s help in publishing his war novel, a story about a doomed romance with a German nurse. Bill and Kurt were fellow infantry officers in the World War I American army. Coolly independent freelancer Kate Lundberg edits the novel while Bill’s interest in Kate grows during a late-night date at a Paris jazz bistro. The beautiful Djuna Barnes meets Kurt at a literary salon and strikes up a friendship and helps Kurt portray a more realistic, war-torn heroine in his novel. The exciting Left Bank life during the Paris Jazz Age is highlighted with cameos of Janet Flanner, Solita Solano, Margaret Anderson, Man Ray, Andre Breton, Sylvia Beach, Natalie Barney, while John Maynard Keynes provides a dramatic subplot on getting much needed food into defeated Germany in 1919.

A brave war...a failed peace...a story set during the Jazz Age in Paris of the 1920s...with plenty of Lost Generation panache.
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A Farewell in Paris is actually three well-told stories: One probes the three characters' personal struggles to help explain their sense of emptiness and foreboding in a self-absorbed world. The second is an immersion in the era's blossoming of art, literature, fashion, dance, music, sexuality and modernism. The third is a historical lesson about how the Treaty of Versailles, which ended WWI, sowed the seeds for the more disastrous WWII.

In all this, Myers succeeds in displaying sophisticated and empathetic insight into the period's mindset, an era he captivatingly sketches. Although the Left Bank, the Parisian salons and cafes, and their denizens are familiar in literature and art, Myers freshly paints them, giving them their due. - BlueInk Reviews

 "In this lively novel, Myers clearly demonstrates his familiarity with the intellectual culture of Paris in the 1920s." - Publishers Weekly Select review
"Few places evoke nostalgia like the City of Light in the 1920s, and Myers doesn't skimp on the literary and historical details in his latest novel: His protagonist, Bill Lawrence, an American war veteran turned literary agent, encounters a bevy of famous writers and artists, although Ernest Hemingway, who provides the novel with its guiding spirit, never makes an appearance."- Kirkus Reviews

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This novel revisits the theme so powerfully told by Ernest Hemingway in "A Farewell to Arms" about the emptiness of the sacrifices of World War I. But in this novel the action is moved to a romance in Germany after the Armistrice between an American officer and a German nurse told from a retrospective look back from Paris of 1928.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B00AF2I992
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Paul A. Myers Books (November 28, 2012)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ November 28, 2012
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 833 KB
  • Simultaneous device usage ‏ : ‎ Unlimited
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 250 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
    3.1 3.1 out of 5 stars 9 ratings

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Paul A. Myers

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Paul A. Myers is the author of series of historical novels themed on the political and diplomatic history in Europe during the interwar years and a new series "Fighting France" set on the French experience during the Second World War. Paul and his wife divide their time between an apartment in Paris's Latin Quarter and a condo in Corona del Mar, California.

Contemporary novels include "Greek Bonds and French Ladies," a well-reviewed satire about the 2012 Greek financial crisis, and a sequel "Fast Money and French Ladies" about the 2015 Greek financial crisis.

Myers started his writing career with the maritime history "North to California: The Spanish Voyages of Discovery 1533-1603." He can be contacted at myersbooks@gmail.com and followed on Twitter and Facebook at myersbooks.

See www.myersbooks.com for more information.

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skeezix
3.0 out of 5 stars An over done history lesson
Reviewed in the United States on May 5, 2014
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The premise of this book is excellent. We won the war and the politicians lost the peace and brought about an even greater tragedy.
We meet or read about most if not all of the literary notables of 1920s Paris, but each time we meet them, they are reintroduced as though the reader's memory only extends back two or three pages. This ruined the book for me.
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david welsh
5.0 out of 5 stars Paul Myers 'A farewell in Paris" is an excellent read
Reviewed in the United States on December 31, 2012
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'A farewell in Paris' interweaves three main fictional characters, all American ex patriots. and their interactions with with various actual persons living in Paris during the nineteen-thirties. Bill Lawrence is a literary agent and a veteran of the U.S. Army in World War One. Kurt Eckhart is an American foreign correspondent in Berlin and a veteran of the U.S.Army in World War One. Kate Lundberg is an American free-lance writer living on the Left Bank of Paris. Eckert has experienced a devastating family tragedy but things begin to look up as he works on a book pronouncing the war a success but the following peace to be a failure. Other characters include John Maynard Keynes, Djuna Barnes, Solita Solano, and Mina Loy.
Myers has authored three other novels set in the thirties and a history of the Spanish discovery of California. He is a Vietnam veteran.
David B. Welsh author of 'Genes, Dots, and Spies' 'The Shakarchi File', and 'Marburg'.
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D. Dahl
4.0 out of 5 stars Hello to Farewell
Reviewed in the United States on March 22, 2013
In A FAREWELL IN PARIS, Paul Myers gifts the reader with a glimpse at the late 20s, its exciting blend of arts explosion, mal de vivre, and decadence, reactionary to the horrors of World War I. At first heralded as, "the war to end all wars," WWI with its massive number of military and civilian casualties and following failed peace, chillingly presage of the not-too-far- ahead horror of World War II.

A FAREWELL IN PARIS affords us a tour of the Paris and Berlin jazzy nightlife as the ancillary meaning of "Gay Paris" exposes a mix of straight and same-sex relationships without, however, being offensive. Paul Meyers piques our interest as he adroitly lends his fictional characters the flavor of truth by intermixing them with genuine famous and historical figures.
His impressive amount of research makes A FAREWELL IN PARIS historically informative, his knowledge of the era minutiae, captivating, and the twist-at-the-end story line, engrossing.

On the heels of a more in-depth line editing, I would give A FAREWELL IN PARIS the five-star rating it deserves rather than the present four.
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Tonya Moore
4.0 out of 5 stars Prepare to be transported...
Reviewed in the United States on March 20, 2013
This was a well written book that was well researched as well.
What I enjoyed most about this book was the feeling that I was transported to the 1920's, Paris and the arty life of post World War I. The fictional characters and historical characters and interwoven seemlessly. I would love to follow these characters farther in their lives both fictional and real. Characters I hated to leave. History, romance, politics all rolled together in a delightful read.
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Eric Eliason
5.0 out of 5 stars " A Farewll In Paris" is an excellent read!!!
Reviewed in the United States on February 11, 2013
"The book, the era, the characters and the stories as well as the relationships completely captured me to the extent of being there in Paris and Berlin with them. Additionally, the Jazz Era of the 1920's in Paris was all and more than I ever expected. I wish I could have been there on some of those late nights enjoying wine and jazz as well as the dancing. I quickly realized how very special the bonds and support was amongst particularly the women not to mention the sexuality and romance.
The combining of both fictional and non-fictional characters was indeed remarkable and contributed greatly to the success of this novel. The life experiences of Kurt (the American foreign correspondent in Berlin and WW I veteran) were at once both remarkable and yet sad and tragic. His relationship with the London economist John M. Keynes and the link with Mr. Keynes' book "The Economic Consequences of the Peace" was profound and timely. I was moved by the conversations related to the "Failed Peace" after World War I. Reparations and excessive greed seemed to consume many after the victory while the real humanitarian needs of the people after the war went unmet. A very sad commentary indeed.
Eric Eliason
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Caroline
5.0 out of 5 stars A Farewell in Paris
Reviewed in the United States on January 13, 2013
I love the way the author intertwined the lives of his fictional characters with historical characters in his novel. The story is a pleasurably engaging one, with well balanced doses of naughtiness and seriousness. Totally recommend it.
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