My French Whore (Thorndike Core)
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| Rating | : | 4.31 (658 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0786297255 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 179 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-12-18 |
| Language | : | English |
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His first book, about his own life, was Kiss Me Like A Stranger, and was followed by the novels My French Whore, The Woman Who Wouldn’t , What Is This Thing Called Love? and Something to Remember You By.. Gene Wilder (1933-2016) began acting when he was thirteen and writing for the screen since the early 1970s. Wilder has a
(His memoir, Kiss Me Like a Stranger, appeared last year.) It's 1918, and Paul Peachy, an unassuming train conductor and amateur actor in Milwaukee, finds his marriage has run out of steam, and decides to enlist as a dough boy. Soon sent into the front line, Paul deserts and, in an extraordinary sequence, passes himself off as Harry Stroller. At nearly 30, Paul has seen little of the world, as his naïve and candid dispatches from the French trenches make clear. Despite some ensuing heroism, the game's soon up for Peachy, and the novel takes the form of the final, eloquent notebook of a man still finding
"Ineresting World War I vignette" according to Jennifer A. Ray. Leaving his uninterested wife, Paul Peachy joins the armed services and is soon deployed to France during World War I. When his camp is decimated by the Germans, he finds himself at the wrong end of a number of rifles, but some quick thinking and a fluency in the German language serve to buy him some time.He assumes the identity of an infamous German spy, Harry Stroller, and is not only accepted into the German camp, but is eagerly welcomed. Indeed, his `host' even introduces him. Quite fast paced, but a very good story. I thoroughly enjoyed it. Reading Mr. Wilde's fiction is a delightful way to spend an evening. Stretching the tale would add nothing.. "Easy read by Gene Wilder" according to Julianne M. Pringle. Gene Wilder has a gift of story-telling in a easy to read way. Characters are enduring and yet flawed as we all are. Enjoyable weekend read.
Risking everything, Peachywho as a child of immigrants speaks Germanmakes 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 existeda world of sumptuous living, world-weary men, and available women. 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. Peachy instantly realizes how out of his depth he isand never more so than when he is captured. He enlists, and ships off to France. But when one of those womenAnnie, a young, beautiful and wary courtesanturns out to be more than she seems, Peachy's life is transformed forever.. It's almost the end of the war and Paul Peachy, a young railway employee and amateur actor in Milwaukee, realizes hi