Coup de Grâce

By Marguerite Yourcenar

Book Overview

Set in the Baltic provinces in the aftermath of World War I, Coup de Grace tells the story of an intimacy that grows between three young people hemmed in by civil war: Erick, a Prussian fighting with the White Russians against the Bolsheviks; Conrad, his best friend from childhood; and Sophie, whose unrequited love for Conrad becomes an unbearable burden.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0374516316
• ISBN13: 9780374516314
• Release Date: May 1981
• Publisher: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3pl
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 4.5" x 7.9"