The Green Shutters - Howard Curtis

The Green Shutters - Howard Curtis

Howard Curtis

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Published 12 November 2026

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  • Pages · 208 pages
  • Publication Date · 12/11/2026
  • Genre · Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
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Sin and green shutters: both entailed lots of unexpected consequences that weren't easy to see at first glance . . . In the autumn years of his illustrious career, `The Great' Emile Maugin, a celebrated actor, receives devastating news: he does not have long left to live. Hounded by rage, alcoholism and the memories of his fractured childhood in the Vend�e marshes, he haunts the stage doors and dimly-lit bars of pre-war Paris. Yet, faintly visible on the horizon of his mind, stands a white house with green shutters and manicured lawns, whose inhabitants lead the `normal life' that lies just beyond Maugin's reach. First published in 1950, The Green Shutters cuts to the depths of the human soul and asks: what is left to us when time runs out?

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