01639cam a2200349 i 4500 262395042 TxAuBib 20160519120000.0 151113s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2015041778 9781101947180 1101947187 (OCoLC)918969596 TxAuBib rda Baker, Jo,. A country road, a tree / Jo Baker. First American edition. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2016. 289 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier "This is a Borzoi book.". "When war breaks out in Europe in 1939, the young, unknown writer Samuel Beckett journeys from his home in neutral Ireland to conflict-ridden Paris and is drawn into the maelstrom. He experiences the hardships in Europe during the Nazis' rise to power. Describes his friendships with James Joyce and other luminaries; his quietly passionate devotion to the Frenchwoman who will become his lifelong companion; his secret work for the French Resistance and narrow escapes from the Gestapo; his flight from occupied Paris to the countryside; and the rubble of his life after liberation."-- Provided by publisher. 20160519. Beckett, Samuel, 1906-1989 Fiction. Authors, Irish 20th century Fiction. World War, 1939-1945 France Paris Fiction. Biographical fiction. Historical fiction. TXWIT