Full name: My French Whore: A Love Story

Author: Gene Wilder Year: 2007 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Fiction, Historical fiction, Romance, Humor Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Amazon LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780312377991 0312377991

The beloved actor and screenwriter Gene Wilder's first novel, My French Whore, 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. Similar books: The Woman Who Wouldn't by Gene Wilder Say Goodbye for Now by Catherine Ryan Hyde The Glassblower by Petra Durst-Benning City of Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Philipp Sendker Calling Me Home by Julie Kibler Brooklyn by Colm Toibin Edenbrooke by Julianne Donaldson At the Water's Edge by Sara Gruen Blackmoore by Julianne Donaldson The Paradise of Glass by Petra Durst-Benning The Corinthian by Georgette Heyer Black Sheep by Georgette Heyer The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat by Edward Kelsey Moore Never Look Back by Lesley Pearse The Story of Beautiful Girl by Rachel Simon The Convenient Marriage by Georgette Heyer Bringing Down the Duke by Evie Dunmore Sisi: Empress on Her Own by Allison Pataki