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Bastille Day : A Novel by Gregory Todd Garrett (2023, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherParaclete Press, Incorporated

ISBN-10164060751X

ISBN-139781640607514

eBay Product ID (ePID)7057275386

Product Key Features

Book TitleBastille Day : a Novel

Number of Pages272 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicChristian / Suspense

Publication Year2023

GenreFiction

AuthorGregory Todd Garrett

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Weight10.4 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.5 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2022-044089

ReviewsPraise for Greg Garrett "A remarkable novelist who has the courage to explore in classic terms the great theme of the human soul." --Robert Olen Butler, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain "Garrett writes with intelligence, with wit, with humor, with obvious affection for his characters, with an eye for salient detail." --Elinor Lipman, author of Good Riddance "Garrett creates characters who are whole and complex." -- Library Journal "An astonishingly gifted writer." --Dennis Covington, National Book Award Finalist for Salvation on Sand Mountain

Grade FromCollege Freshman

SynopsisVeteran TV journalist Calvin Jones travels to Paris, where he negotiates love, friendship, and despair in award-winning novelist Greg Garrett's Bastille Day. With brilliant pacing and gorgeous prose, acclaimed novelist Greg Garrett tells the story of American TV journalist Calvin Jones, who travels to Paris to work with a producer friend he knows from their dark days covering the war in Iraq. Cal Jones has had a quiet ten years, by design. After surviving the loss of two people he loved in the Iraq war, which he covered as a national correspondent, he fell apart and retreated to a local news job in Texas. Cal is still wrestling with those old demons when he goes to Paris to work with an old friend and encounters Nadia, a brilliant, lovely, and sad Saudi Muslim woman in Paris with plans to wed a Saudi sheikh in a family-arranged marriage. Against his own better judgment, Cal falls for Nadia, even dragging her from the Seine when she attempts to solve her insoluble problem by taking her own life. He begins to risk a heart he thought was too badly broken to ever love again, and as the wedding ticks closer, to hope that perhaps Nadia can make a choice that includes him. Then their time rescuing each other is interrupted by the terror attack in Nice, which Cal is called out to cover. Back in that setting, Cal is thrown back into the memories of senseless violence and extremism that shattered him in Iraq--and that threaten to shatter him and his hopes now. Garrett's characters wrestle with the ghosts of their pasts, as they long for love, friendship, and faith in the present. Bastille Day is a gloriously-affecting novel about how our histories can damage us, but hope can heal us., "Garrett creates characters who are whole and complex." -- Library Journal Bastille Day: A Story of Love, Loss, and Redemption in the City of Light Haunted by the past, can he find hope in a city that has seen it all? Veteran journalist Calvin Jones has spent the last decade keeping his head down, reporting local news in Texas and trying to forget the devastating losses he suffered in the Iraq war. But when an old friend offers him a chance to work in Paris, he seizes the opportunity--only to find that the ghosts of war are not so easily left behind. In the shadow of the Eiffel Tower, Cal meets Nadia, a brilliant but heartbroken Saudi woman caught in the grip of an arranged marriage. Their unexpected connection offers them both a glimmer of hope--until the world intrudes once more. When a terror attack in Nice forces Cal back into the chaos he thought he'd escaped, he must confront the traumas of his past and decide if he's willing to risk everything for a future he never thought possible. Told with breathtaking prose and emotional depth, Bastille Day is a powerful novel of love, loss, and the resilience of the human spirit. Perfect for fans of literary fiction that explores the complexities of war, faith, and second chances, Greg Garrett's latest work is a compelling testament to the enduring power of hope., Bastille Day: A Story of Love, Loss, and Redemption in the City of Light Haunted by the past, can he find hope in a city that has seen it all?

LC Classification NumberPS3607.A77B37 2023