Coup de Grace Author:Marguerite Yourcenar Set in the Baltic provinces in the aftermath of World War I, Coup de Grace tells the story of a strange and unhappy threesome: Erick, a young Prussian engaged with the White Russians in fighting the Bolsheviks; Conrad, the beloved friend of his youth; and Conrad's sister Sophie, whose unrequited love for Erick becomes an unbearable burden. An an... more »guished intimacy grows up among the three young people, hemmed in by the civil war, fearful of the future and their own confused emotions.« less