My French Whore
Author(s): Gene Wilder
The beloved actor and screenwriter's first novel, 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.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Old Street Publishing
- : Old Street Publishing
- : 0.208
- : 01 February 2008
- : 0.75000mm X 5.00000mm X 7.75000mm
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 May 2008
- : books
Special Fields
- : Gene Wilder
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 813/.6
- : oc2008048592
- : 174