Promise at Dawn

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‘You will be a great hero, a general, Gabriele d’Annunzio, Ambassador of France!’For his whole life, Romain Gary’s fierce, eccentric motherhad only one aim: to make her son a great man. And she did. This, his thrilling, wildly romantic autobiography, is the story of his journey from poverty in Eastern Europe to the sensual world of the Côte d’Azur and on to wartime pilot, resistance hero, diplomat, filmmaker, star and one of the most famed French writers of his age.

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Weight 0.235 kg
Dimensions 1.8 × 13 × 19.8 cm
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Format

Paperback

Language

Pages

320

Publisher

Year Published

2018-9-6

Imprint

Publication City/Country

London, United Kingdom

ISBN 10

0241347637

Perhaps the only memorial by a son that raises the rare literary pleasure of laughter in the reader as a measure of appreciation.

Other text

A celebrated and infinitely seductive portrait of his early life, which is still often described as an unprecedented innovation in the writing of autobiography in France

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