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Carton disappears from the novel for eleven chapters and several years, reappearing without warning to bring the novel to its chilling and heartbreaking end. Yet Dickens is silent about the circumstances that transformed Carton from a promising youth to an embittered alcoholic and finally to the man who makes the ultimate sacrifice for love. \u003ci\u003eA Far Better Rest\u003c\/i\u003e imagines his missing personal history and makes him the center of this tragic tale. \u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eBorn in England of a wealthy, unloving father and a French mother, Sydney is sent to study in Paris, where he meets Charles Darnay and the other students--Robespierre and Camille Desmoulins among them--who will have enormous influence on his life and alter the course of French history. Years later, when Sydney, disinherited, is living a lonely and purposeless existence in London, Charles reenters his life. 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Written at the height of the anti-war movement, these poems bring together disparate threads of different historical epochs—World War II, the rhythms of the post-Beat era, and the atmosphere in America during the Vietnam war—historical periods that Badanes’ poems make fresh and which feel highly relevant to today's culture and political climate. 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