Bibliograph

The American fiancée, a novel, Eric Dupont ; translated from the French by Peter McCambridge

Type

Label

The American fiancée, a novel, Eric Dupont ; translated from the French by Peter McCambridge

Language

eng

Index

no index present

Literary Form

fiction

Main title

The American fiancée

Oclc number

1139344952

Responsibility statement

Eric Dupont ; translated from the French by Peter McCambridge

Sub title

a novel

Summary

"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" --, Amazon.com

Target audience

adult

Classification