A Life in Three Lands Author:Jacques Guiton It is no surprise that Jacques Guiton, an architect who subscribes to Le Corbusier's idea of harmony as a controlling principle of design, should have produced a balanced and shapely book of memoirs. Between his early experiences at his grandfather's French country place to his retirement years at his own similar old farmhouse in America, Guiton... more » chronicles events in Paris, Brittany, German prison camps and America. His prose is clean and clear and draws on all the senses. In the face of self-sacrifice, demoralisation and recovery, Guiton's stance is astonishingly modest, even self-deprecatory. This is a tender, sometimes funny, and quite unsentimental record of one man's adaptation to different lands -- his own search for human and happy coexistence in a puzzling world.« less