The Blue Bicycle - Hardcover

Deforges, Regine. (Translated From The French By Ros Schwartz).

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 049103444X ISBN 13: 9780491034449

Publisher: W, 1985

Synopsis

Lea, second eldest daughter of Pierre Delmas, the owner of the Montillac winery, falls in love with Laurent d'Argilat, who is engaged to her cousin, Camille

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Language Notes

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French

From Publishers Weekly

"The little savage from Montillac" is what her suave lover Francois calls Lea, passionate heroine of this frankly lush, romantic novel of France during the war years 19391942. Daughter of a rich wine grower in Bordeaux, Lea sees her adored childhood sweetheart, Laurent, married to his cousin, namby-pamby Camille. Lea has lovers but never stops carrying the torch for Laurent, while tending pregnant Camille during Laurent's service at the front, holding down the family estate of Montillac, where Germans are billeted, and cycling through occupied checkpoints with messages for the Resistance. Deforges, a bestselling writer in France, gives us moving scenes of civilian panic and carnage and glimpses of Paris high life enjoyed by collaborators and black-marketeers. Radio broadcasts by the still unknown de Gaulle, and defeatist Petainhead of the Vichy puppet regimefire French patriotism and keep the underground going. Plenty of entertainment here, and echoes of Gone with the Wind, though it's hard to tell what lusty Lea sees in Laurent. Book two of this trilogy will come next year. 100,000 first printing; $50,000 ad/promo.
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About this edition

• Publisher: W
• Publication date: 1985
• ISBN 10: 049103444X
• ISBN 13: 9780491034449
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 390