Ostend : Stefan Zweig, Joseph Roth, and the Summer Before the Dark Sharon L. Lechter who runs away from home

who runs away from home at fifteen under the shadow of his father's dark prophecy

and inspires readers to cultivate an effortless chic that is all their own

and Germans who get straight to the point (“your presentation was simply awful”)

let it mark the beginning of a new life

Greenmantle

Ostend : Stefan Zweig, Joseph Roth, and the Summer Before the Dark Sharon L. Lechter who runs away from homeIts the summer of 1936, and the writer Stefan Zweig is in crisis. His German publisher no longer wants him, his marriage is collapsing, and his house in Austriasearched by the police two years earlierno longer feels like home. Hes been dreaming of Ostend, the Belgian beach town that is a paradise of promenades, parasols, and old friends. So he journeys there with his lover, Lotte Altmann, and reunites with fellow writer and semi estranged close friend