The American
A Memoir
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
15 May 2007
Summary
On June 6, 1944, Frederick Giesbert, assigned to the American army’s 29th division, landed on bloody Omaha Beach, Normandy, an experience from which he never recovered. Three years later, Frederick had returned to his hometown of Chicago, married to a French girl. But when the seemingly happy couple moved to Normandy to make a home with their baby, something in Frederick snapped, and he turned cruel and violent.
His son, Franz-Oliver, spent his childhood doing everything he could to d…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781400095858 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 1400095859 |
| Author: | Franz-Olivier Giesbert |
| Publisher: | Random House USA Inc |
| Imprint: | Vintage Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 15 May 2007 |
| Weight: | 175g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 133mm x 11mm |
| Series: | Vintage |
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Critics Review
“[An] astonishingly frank memoir of self-discovery and self-loathing.” –The Philadelphia Inquirer
“Says as much about the events in Normandy in 1944 as do many of the far weightier texts that it can honorably sit beside.”
–The Economist
“What Giesbert does well in his work … is to instill his prose with the haunting that forever chases the abused child, long after that child becomes an adult.” –Rocky Mountain News
“This dark story, in the tradition of Maupassant, is a miracle: gaiety, imagination, the drive to understand, and also tenderness… . It has perhaps never been better show how war continues long after its end and is spread from father to son.” –Le Nouvel Observateur
About The Author
Franz-Olivier Giesbert
Franz-Olivier Giesbert is a prominent French intellectual, though he was born in Wilmington, Delaware and spent the first three years of his life in America. He is a novelist, biographer, television host and newspaper editor. He has worked at Le Nouvelle Observateur as its Washington correspondent and served as Editor-in-Chief of Le Figaro.
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