Book the flight portfolio7/5/2023 ![]() Image © UnsplashĪ very helpful Author’s Note, which for some reason has been placed at the end of the book rather than the beginning, explains the rationale for the author’s decision to create this character and this subplot. ![]() ![]() This includes one of the main characters, who is necessary for a secondary plot having to do with a homosexual love affair between Fry and the (invented) love of his life. It turns out that in the case of The Flight Portfolio, while most of the characters were real people whose real names are used, and the broad outlines of the rescue operation are accurate, a very large part of the story involves not only invented details, situations, and dialogue, but also several invented people. The book is historical fiction, and to be honest, historical fiction always presents this reader with something of a conflict, because I strongly prefer to know which parts of a story I’m reading are factual, and which parts are fictional. ![]() Many, though not all, of the people he saved were eminent writers, artists, academics, and political figures. State Department approved of his activities. ![]() Eventually he was forced to leave France because neither the Vichy government nor the U.S. for more than 2,000 refugees who were in danger of losing their lives. The Flight Portfolio is a bold, ambitious novel based on the true story of Varian Fry, an American journalist who, during 13 months spent in France in 1940-41, managed to arrange safe passage out of France and on to the U.S. ![]()
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