The American fiancée
Dupont, Éric, 1970-2020
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Born on Christmas, Louis Lamontagne, the family's patriarch, is a larger-than-life lothario and raconteur who inherits his mother's teal eyes and his father's brutish good looks and whose charms travel beyond Quebec, across the state of New York where he wins at county fairs as a larger-than-life strongman, and even in Europe, where he is deployed for the US Army during World War II. We meet his daughter, Madeleine, who opens a successful chain of diners using the recipes from her grandmother, the original American Fiancée, and vows never to return to her hometown. And we end with her son Gabriel, another ladies' man in the family, who falls in love with a woman he follows to Berlin and discovers unexpected connections there to the Lamontagne family that re-frame the entire course of the events in the book.
Main title:
The American fiancée / Éric Dupont ; translated by Peter McCambridge.
Author:
Dupont, Éric, 1970-, authorMcCambridge, Peter, 1979-, translator
Imprint:
London : HarperVia, 2020.
Collation:
608 pages ; 23 cm
Notes:
Translated from the French.
ISBN:
9780008384142 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
843.92
Language:
EnglishFrench
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BRN:
1164708
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