My French whore [electronic resource] / 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.
Record details
- ISBN: 9781415938157 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- ISBN: 1415938156 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
- Publisher: [Santa Ana, Calif.] : Books on Tape, 2007.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Unabridged. Duration: 3:48:56. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Read by Scott Brick. |
System Details Note: | Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 54830 KB). Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
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Subject: | World War, 1914-1918 > France > Fiction. Soldiers > United States > Fiction. Americans > France > Fiction. Impersonation > Fiction. Prostitutes > Fiction. |
Genre: | Humorous fiction. Love stories. Audiobooks. |