Fencers: A Cold War Escape Memoir David Elliott Knowing these words by sight

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threaten to rise up and drown them both

A charming literary-themed novel about a young woman determined to save her great-aunt's beloved bookshop from extinction by the shiny new competition--which also happens to be run by the handsome son of her family's rivals

her biggest concern is making friends at her fancy new boarding school

Fencers: A Cold War Escape Memoir David Elliott Knowing these words by sightThe Fencers is the third volume in a trilogy of autobiographical Cold War Escape stories. It is both an immigrant's narrative of seeking a better life and a brighter future and a sports memoir focusing on two Olympic fencers, one representing Canada, the other Romania. Most of all, it is the account of the author's friendship with Paul Szab, a Romanian Hungarian epe fencer, Szab's love for a young woman he married and her tragic death. In Romania, the