Mademoiselle Benoir Paperback - 2006
by Conrad, Christine
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- Title Mademoiselle Benoir
- Author Conrad, Christine
- Binding Paperback
- Edition First Edition
- Condition Used - Very Good
- Pages 230
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Houghton Mifflin, Boston
- Date 2006-01-04
- Illustrated Yes
- Bookseller's Inventory # GOR013742426
- ISBN 9780618574797 / 0618574794
- Weight 0.7 lbs (0.32 kg)
- Dimensions 7.26 x 5.4 x 0.82 in (18.44 x 13.72 x 2.08 cm)
- Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Love stories
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 2005012176
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Summary
Letters written to his family back home sweep the reader up in Tim’s schooling in, and awakening to, the pastoral French lifestyle. From the attention to food (meals seem to Tim a semireligious rite) to the delightfully quirky neighbors who appear to spring straight out of a Balzac novel, we share Tim’s ever-growing pleasures and adventures.
But his enchantment with this foreign land becomes far more complicated when his drawings—and then Tim himself—catch the eye of Mademoiselle Benoir, a beautiful, aristocratic woman twenty years his senior. Their decision to marry sets off a cluster bomb, uncovering incendiary layers of emotional and cultural complexity on both sides of the Atlantic, as his family tries to reason with him, her family declares war, and the villagers choose sides. Will tradition triumph over love?
Inspired by a true story, this is a delicious stew with something for everyone.
Christine Conrad has worked as the New York City film commissioner, as an editor in book publishing, as a screenwriter for motion pictures and television, and as an advocate for women's health. Her most recent book, Jerome Robbins, is a pictorial biography inspired by her long friendship with the choreographer.
