The First Thing You See
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The First Thing You See by Gregoire Delacourt
Imagine you are a young mechanic living in a small community in France. You own your own home, and lead a simple life. Then, one evening, you open your front door to find a distraught Hollywood starlet standing in front of you. This is what happens to Arthur Dreyfuss in the village of Long, population 687 inhabitants. But although feigning an American accent, this woman is not all that she seems. For her name is Jeanine Foucamprez, and her story is very different from the glamorous life of a star. Arthur is not all he seems, either; a lover of poetry with a darker past than one might imagine, he has learnt to see beauty in the mundane. THE FIRST THING YOU SEE is a warm, witty novel about two fragile souls learning to look beyond the surface - for the first thing you see isn't always what you get!
It's a powerful message which begins with the novel's title - a meditation on our obsession with beauty, celebrity and the consequences for those lumbered with one or both, delivered in a deceptively simple package stuffed full of filmic references and peppered with poetic quotationsIt's a little gem and it's been a long time in the offing in translation. * A Life In Books *
This smart romantic comedy is charmingly Gallic and cries out to be filmed as a sentimental comedy. * SUNDAY TIMES *
At once tender and harrowing, light-hearted and profound, it is a highly original and affecting read. * THE LADY *
This smart romantic comedy is charmingly Gallic and cries out to be filmed as a sentimental comedy. * SUNDAY TIMES *
At once tender and harrowing, light-hearted and profound, it is a highly original and affecting read. * THE LADY *
Grégoire Delacourt is the bestselling author of eight novels and has won several literary awards. His novel THE LIST OF MY DESIRES was a runaway number-one international bestseller. Grégoire lives with his wife in Brooklyn, New York.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780297871026 |
| ISBN 10 | 0297871021 |
| Titel | The First Thing You See |
| Autor | Gregoire Delacourt |
| Buchzustand | Nicht verfügbar |
| Bindungsart | Hardback |
| Verlag | Orion Publishing Co |
| Erscheinungsjahr | 2015-09-10 |
| Seitenanzahl | 240 |
| Hinweis auf dem Einband | Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden. |
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