Ebook: Promise at Dawn
Author: Gary Romain
- Tags: Authors French--20th century, Authors French, Biography, Biographies, Gary Romain, Authors French -- 20th century -- Biography
- Year: 2013
- Publisher: New Directions
- City: New York
- Edition: 1st American ed.
- Language: English
- epub
A romantic, thrilling memoir that has become a French classic.
Promise at Dawn by Romain Gary (1914-80), a classic of modern French literature, has all the earmarks of a richly romantic novel. It is all the more thrilling, therefore, to read it and know that this is not fiction but a real-life story. As a young child, Romain Gary's mother told him that a day would come when he would have to challenge and conquer the evil demons of submission and defeat. After all, he was to be a French military hero, ambassador, noted writer, and ladies' man . . . . Thus anticipating battle, by the time of his death he had won the Cross of the Liberation, the Croix de Guerre, the Legion of Honor, the Prix Goncourt (the last rather a comedown, as his mother had mentioned the Nobel Prize); and he had been the French consul-general in Los Angeles. Promise at Dawn begins as the story of a mother's sacrifice. Alone and poor she fights fiercely to give her son the very best. Gary chronicles his...Download the book Promise at Dawn for free or read online
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