My French Whore: A Love Story

di Gene Wilder (Autore)

Griffin Publishing, 2008

The beloved actor and screenwriter Gene Wilder's first novel, My French Whore, set during World War I, delicately and elegantly explores a most unusual romance. It's almost the end of the war and Paul Peachy, a young railway employee and amateur actor in Milwaukee, realizes his marriage is one-sided. He enlists, and ships off to France. Peachy instantly realizes how out of his depth he is--and never more so than when he is captured. Risking everything, Peachy--who as a child of immigrants speaks German--makes the reckless decision to impersonate one of the enemy's most famous spies. As the urbane and accomplished spy Harry Stroller, Peachy has access to a world he could never have known existed--a world of sumptuous living, world-weary men, and available women. But when one of those women--Annie, a young, beautiful and wary courtesan--turns out to be more than she seems, Peachy's life is transformed forever.

• Autore: Gene Wilder
• Editore: Griffin Publishing
• Anno: 2008
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 192 p.
• Dimensioni: 203 x 127 mm
• Peso: 227 gr.
• EAN: 9780312377991

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