Coup de Grace

Coup de Grace

• Marguerite Yourcenar, Coup de Grace

<p>Set in the Baltic provinces in the aftermath of World War I, <i>Coup de Grace</i> tells the story of an intimacy that grows between three young people hemmed in by civil war: Erick, a Prussian fighting with the White Russians against the Bolsheviks; Conrad, his best friend from childhood; and Sophie, whose unrequited love for Conrad becomes an unbearable burden.</p>