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My French Whore: A Love Story

My French Whore: A Love Story - Paperback

by Gene Wilder
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Availability:In StockContributor:Gene WilderPublish date:2008-02-05Pages:192
Language:EnglishPublisher:St. Martin's GriffinISBN-13:9780312377991ISBN-10:312377991UPC:9780312377991Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Romance, Historical, War & MilitaryBook Topic:20th CenturySize:8.00 x 5.00 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SCB9N0YNFB

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.
Language:EnglishPublisher:St. Martin's GriffinISBN-13:9780312377991ISBN-10:312377991UPC:9780312377991Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Romance, Historical, War & MilitaryBook Topic:20th CenturySize:8.00 x 5.00 x 0.60 inchesWeight:0.5004Product ID:SCB9N0YNFB
Gene Wilder (1933-2016) began acting when he was thirteen and writing for the screen since the early 1970s. After a small role in Bonnie and Clyde pulled him away from a career onstage, he was nominated for an Academy Award as Best Supporting Actor for his role as Leo Bloom in The Producers, which led to Blazing Saddles and then to another Academy nomination, this time for writing Young Frankenstein. Wilder has appeared in twenty-five feature films and a number of stage productions. 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.
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin

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