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The Fires of Autumn
The Fires of Autumn | Irčne Némirovsky
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This panoramic exploration of French life between the wars reads like a prequel to Irčne Némirovsky’s international bestseller Suite Française. At the end of the First World War, Bernard Jacquelain returns from the trenches a changed man. Broken by the unspeakable horrors he has witnessed, he becomes addicted to the lure of wealth and success. He wallows in the corruption and excess of post-war Paris, but when his lover abandons him, Bernard turns to a childhood friend for comfort. For ten years, he lives the good bourgeois life, but when the drums of war begin to sound again, everything around which he has rebuilt himself starts to crumble, and the future—of his marriage and of his country—suddenly becomes terribly uncertain. Written after Némirovsky fled Paris in 1940, just two years before her death, and first published in France in 1957, The Fires of Autumn is a coruscating, tragic novel of war and its aftermath, and of the ugly color it can turn a man's soul. From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Ruthiella
The Fires of Autumn | Irčne Némirovsky
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These are three books that I will read in October. And this is the last entry for the #3books prompt for September 2020.

Thanks so much to @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks and. @OriginalCyn620 ! 😀 for organizing this. The prompts were super fun to think about.

OriginalCyn620 Thanks for playing along! 😊 4y
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Cathythoughts
The Fires of Autumn | Irčne Némirovsky
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#SeptemberDanes #pregnant A quote from The Fires Of Autumn.. 💔❤️

Kalalalatja 👏👏👏 6y
TrishB Well found 👍🏻 6y
Cathythoughts @Kalalalatja @TrishB thanks 🙏🏻 I will definitely read the follow up 6y
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Cathythoughts
The Fires of Autumn | Irčne Némirovsky
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It‘s Autumn.. so I will pick this book to start this Sunday afternoon... 🍂

TrishB Not read - but looks interesting! 6y
Cathythoughts @TrishB I know nothing about it , only it caught my eye in the bookshop ... I think it will be good... 👍🏻❤️ 6y
Reviewsbylola Ooooh curious to see how you like this! 6y
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Cathythoughts @Reviewsbylola you read it then !!? ! 6y
Reviewsbylola No, all of read of hers is Suite Francais and tbh I don‘t remember enough about it to remember whether I really liked it so I‘ve been a bit hesitant to pick up another one of her books. 6y
Eggs 🤗 Irene Nemirovsky 6y
Cathythoughts @Eggs oh great ! Sounds like a good review from you 👍🏻 6y
LeahBergen Suite Francaise was brilliant. ❤️ 6y
Cathythoughts @LeahBergen oh good ... that‘s the next one ... this is the prequel ❤️❤️👍🏻 6y
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