Paperback of "The Light from the Dark Side of the Moon" by Blank Slate Press with a dark-themed cover image.
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Paperback of "The Light from the Dark Side of the Moon" by Blank Slate Press with a dark-themed cover image.

The Light from the Dark Side of the Moon

Blank Slate Press
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Description

A remembrance of love in a time of war. 92-year-old Henry Budge defies most of his family by escaping a rehab hospital to make his way to France for the ceremonies of the 70th observance of D-Day. Before he dies, he hopes to at last address a grief he has allowed to simmer for decades and to rekindle memories of Élodie Bedier, the French Resistance fighter with whom he fell in love 70 years earlier, as a way of confronting his grief at losing her. During his return journey, he relives events of 1944: being wounded as he parachutes into Normandy; falling in love with Élodie who nurses him back to health; fighting the Germans alongside her and her resistance companions; and finally abandoning the war to rescue a group of children from the Holocaust, choices that leave Henry at risk of a firing squad for desertion and Élodie vulnerable to fatal condemnation from her compatriots. When he arrives back in France, Henry makes several shocking discoveries that shake the very foundations of the memories he's had of Élodie all these years and he is left to wonder about the love he has had for Élodie: what rests on true memory vs. what is based on countless imagined conversations over the decades?

Author: Norman G. Gautreau
Publisher: Blank Slate Press
Published: 11/08/2022
Pages: 300
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.70d
ISBN13: 9781943075737
ISBN10: 1943075735
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Biographical
- Fiction | Historical | 20th Century | World War II

About the Author
Norman G. Gautreau: A native New Englander with a life-long love of the sea, Norman's first novel, Sea Room, won the prestigious Massachusetts Book Award for Fiction in 2003, was an "All-City-Reads" choice in several cities, and was a BookSense(R) selection. He has since written several more critically acclaimed, prize-winning novels. An avid reader, poet, sailor, runner, and cyclist, Norman lives outside Boston with his wife Susan and three cats.

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