My French WhoreThe 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. |
Contents
Section 1 | 13 |
Section 2 | 17 |
Section 3 | 23 |
Section 4 | 31 |
Section 5 | 37 |
Section 6 | 51 |
Section 7 | 59 |
Section 8 | 73 |
Section 11 | 97 |
Section 12 | 107 |
Section 13 | 113 |
Section 14 | 123 |
Section 15 | 139 |
Section 16 | 149 |
Section 17 | 155 |
Section 18 | 175 |
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