Grace and Favors tells the story of two unusual young people, victims in different ways of the times they were born into yet with the courage and the capacity to breach the barriers and thus become icons of a special moment. Paris in the wake of the Second World War was such a place at such a time. It was an “anything is possible” moment. New bridges, strong ideals, renewed strength—all seemed within reach.
The two young protagonists are Riccardo, a gifted young Italian painter who had suffered fascism and the fight against it almost from birth, and...
Grace and Favors tells the story of two unusual young people, victims in different ways of the times they were born into yet with the courage and t...