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Paperback The Sun Sets Twice: An Unseen Danger Book

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ISBN13: 9798232122348

The Sun Sets Twice: An Unseen Danger

The first installment of a historical fiction trilogy tracing the fortunes of four close friends who meet in Paris in 1900.In the winter of 1966, Isabelle Lavigne, a 26-year-old French reporter, arrives on Blackwater Island in Maryland. She is there to learn the truth about the mysterious death of her grandmother, Suzanne de Lamothe, in 1919. She is seeking answers from Suzanne's best friend, American artist Jennie Latmore. For Jennie, now 82 years old, reliving the past is traumatic, and she refuses to answer Isabelle's questions - until Isabelle shows her a damning little red book and several photographs found in her mother's trunk. Jennie relents: "To understand," she says. "You must know it all from the beginning, as I lived it and as it was told to me." Jump back to 1900, and an enthusiastic 16-year-old Jennie arrives in Paris to begin her tenure as assistant governess for the children of the new American ambassador to France. Her roommate in the servants' quarters is the equally young Suzanne, a French scullery maid. Despite a confrontational start, the two become fast friends. When the ambassador holds a dinner party, Jennie and Suzanne watch from the second-floor landing, catching the eyes of two handsome, fun-loving guests, French painter Geste D'Arcourt and British sculptor Charlie Clark. Through the complicated relationships of these four protagonists - and the forces that send them, reluctantly, in different directions - the first few years of the 20th century are brought to light. From the Bohemian Left Bank in Paris (Matisse and Picasso) to the great expanses of the American Southwest and the horrors of the Boxer Rebellion in China, the four friends struggle against societal mores, personal frailties, violence, and tragedy.
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Le premier volet d'une trilogie de fiction historique retra ant le destin de quatre amis proches qui se rencontrent Paris en 1900.
l'hiver 1966, Isabelle Lavigne, une journaliste fran aise de 26 ans, arrive sur Blackwater Island, dans le Maryland. Elle est venue d couvrir la v rit sur la mort myst rieuse de sa grand-m re, Suzanne de Lamothe, survenue en 1919. Elle cherche des r ponses aupr s de la meilleure amie de Suzanne, l'artiste am ricaine Jennie Latmore. Pour Jennie, aujourd'hui g e de 82 ans, replonger dans le pass est une preuve douloureuse, et elle refuse d'abord de r pondre aux questions d'Isabelle - jusqu' ce que celle-ci lui montre un petit livre rouge accablant et plusieurs photographies trouv es dans la malle de sa m re. Jennie c de alors: Pour comprendre, dit-elle, vous devez tout savoir depuis le d but, tel que je l'ai v cu et tel qu'on me l'a racont .
Retour en 1900: Jennie, enthousiaste jeune fille de 16 ans, arrive Paris pour commencer son poste d'assistante gouvernante aupr s des enfants du nouvel ambassadeur am ricain en France. Sa colocataire dans les quartiers des domestiques est Suzanne, tout aussi jeune, employ e comme fille de cuisine. Malgr des d buts houleux, les deux adolescentes deviennent rapidement amies.
Lors d'un d ner donn par l'ambassadeur, Jennie et Suzanne observent la r ception depuis le palier du deuxi me tage et attirent le regard de deux invit s s duisants et insouciants: le peintre fran ais Geste D'Arcourt et le sculpteur britannique Charlie Clark. travers les relations complexes de ces quatre protagonistes - et les forces qui les poussent, malgr eux, dans des directions diff rentes - les premi res ann es du XXᵉ si cle reprennent vie.
Du Quartier latin boh me de Paris (Matisse et Picasso) aux vastes tendues du Sud-Ouest am ricain, en passant par les horreurs de la r volte des Boxers en Chine, les quatre amis luttent contre les conventions sociales, leurs propres faiblesses, la violence et la trag die.

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