I just want to commemorate the most romantic gift i've heard of in my eighteen years...in
Nelson DeMille's 'The Charm School'
It's not what it sounds like - a prissy girls school thing, its a story of history and espionage, and rather intriuging.
The commemoration goes to Seth Alevy, who gave Lisa Rhodes "a string of amber beads in a satin box"...
If you read it, I hope you understand and think so too...its so very poignant.
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Okay after leaving it for one night I couldn't bear that you wouldn't know the absolutely poignancy of this gift, so I'm going to undertake to retell it for you in a way that will spoil the subtlety of the mini saga. But i think the facts enough might be sufficient to persuade you...
Seth Alevy and Lisa Rhodes are old flames, and they both work in the American embassy in Russia. They're old flames, so in the book Lisa and a guy Sam Hollis fall in love. Seth is the CIA chief, Lisa a PR officer, Sam the head air attache (as in, spy). They're all working together to uncover the Russian Charm School.
Seth still loves Lisa, and "[Lisa] did love him. Or had once loved him. But somehow, being involved with him meant being involved with his world, and she didn't like that. It was too dangerous."
To get to the point, Lisa and Sam were captured, Seth and others went on a rescue. (Oh dear me in the story it was 50 times more tense and difficult.) Seth knowing he would probably die bought Lisa a string of amber beads, which he gave to her before he ran off to do his tactital operations etc. He did die, and I just feel so comforted knowing that he left Lisa something. It's also utterly romantic for the fact that he didn't ever once try to break them up, although he could have saved only Lisa and not Sam.
The love story was hardly hardly hardly at all the focus in this story, but I loved the fact that it was there. It made the entire thing so much more...humane and accessible - to me.
That's it. (: I hope you like it!
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i think the lack of comments can be attributed to the fact that... i think no one really got that.. but it could just have been me.. but it's ok. i love u anyway! xoxo
haha ish.. (: i love you too!
I heard rave great things about this title. I just finished listening to Cathedral by Demille and loved it. Have you read anything else by him recently?
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