The Verdun affair : a novel / Nick Dybek.
In 1921, two young Americans meet in Verdun, the city in France where one of the most devastating battles of the war was waged. Tom is an orphan from Chicago, a former ambulance driver now gathering bones from the battlefield; Sarah is an expatriate from Boston searching for the husband who wandered off from his division and hasn't been seen since. Quickly, the two fall into a complicated affair against the ghostly backdrop of the ruined city. Months later, Sarah and Tom meet again at the psychiatric ward of an Italian hospital, drawn there by the appearance of a mysterious patient the doctors call Douglas Fairbanks (after the silent film actor)--a shell-shocked soldier with no memory of who he is. At the hospital, Tom and Sarah are joined by Paul, an Austrian journalist with his own interest in the amnesiac. Each is keeping a secret; each has been shaken by the horrors of war. Decades later, Tom, now a successful screenwriter, encounters Paul by chance in LA, still grappling with the questions raised by this gorgeous and incisive novel: How to begin again after unfathomable trauma? How to love after so much loss? And who, in the end, was Douglas Fairbanks?"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781501191763
- ISBN: 9781501191770
- ISBN: 1501191764
- ISBN: 1501191772
- Physical Description: 294 pages ; 24 cm
- Edition: First Scribner edition
- Publisher: New York : Scribner, 2018.
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- Subject:
- Amnesia > Fiction.
World War, 1914-1918 > Veterans > Fiction.
Verdun (France) > Fiction. - Genre:
- Romance fiction.
Historical fiction.
Available copies
- 14 of 14 copies available at NC Cardinal.
- 2 of 2 copies available at Onslow County Public Library. (Show)
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- 1 current hold with 14 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Jacksonville Main Library | FIC DYBEK (Text) | 36015000276333 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Richlands Branch Library | FIC DYBEK (Text) | 36015001498571 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Canton Library | F Dybek (Text) | 33115007646782 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| East Asheville Library | F DYB (Text) | 0020511868372 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Fletcher Branch | DYB (Text) | 33258008851490 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Henderson Main Branch | DYB (Text) | 33258008851508 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Kinston-Lenoir County Public Library | DYBEK (Text) | 39149007787252 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Lenoir Library | F DYBEK Nick (Text) | 50669013010963 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| Lexington Public Library | F D (Text) | 25908006820364 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
| North Davidson Public Library | F D (Text) | 25908006867092 | Adult Fiction | Available | - |
