Incidents in the Rue Laugier by Anita Brookner

Incidents in the Rue Laugier by Anita Brookner

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One summer at La Gaillarderie, 18-year-old Maud - handsome but not flirtatious - meets two Englishmen, and they all move eventually to an apartment in Paris. Maud is seduced by the assured and ruthless David who leaves her pregnant, whereupon the quiet dreamy Edward offers to marry her.

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Incidents in the Rue Laugier by Anita Brookner

Every summer Maud Gonthier, from Dijon, the only daughter of a widowed mother, is invited to La Gaillarderie, her aunt's large country house. This particular summer Maud is eighteen, a handsome young woman, but cautious, rigid, a girl who does not know how to flirt. At La Gaillarderie she will meet two Englishmen, David Tyler - assured, beautiful and ruthless - and Tyler's friend from Cambridge, Edward Harrison, a quiet dreamer. Maud, as is inevitable, is seduced by Tyler. They move, all three, to Paris, to an apartment on the Rue Laugier. Tyler, as is also inevitable, deserts Maud, leaving her pregnant. What is not inevitable is that Edward offers to marry her and that she agrees...
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ISBN 13 9780224041249
ISBN 10 022404124X
Title Incidents in the Rue Laugier
Author Anita Brookner
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Hardback
Publisher Vintage Publishing
Year published 1995-06-01
Number of pages 224
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