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After a relationship-breaking argument with her dull, artist boyfriend, Veronique jumps into her little white Fiat and drives off into the warm Paris night. Feeling the effects of the wine she has been drinking, she makes sure she drives slowly and carefully, down into the underpass, not wanting to hit the sides of the tunnel. The Little White Car is a feel-good buddy novel about the untimely death of Diana, Princess of Wales, and how two gorgeous French girls go about urgently dismantling a small white car . . . while an enormous dog sniffs around in the garden and greasy mechanics drop in to provide counsel. A shining example of chick-lit with miles of style and no shortage of attitude, one could see it result in an unprecedented comarketing agreement between Club Monaco and Midas Mufflers.
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Danuta de Rhodes was born in 1980. She grew up in Paris, and studied modern and medieval literature in London before moving to New York City, where she works in the fashion industry....more
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How's this for a night out? You drink yourself silly, dump your experimental-music– loving stoner boyfriend, get in your parent's car and promptly kill a princess with it. But don't worry, you're beautiful and French: everything will work out just fine. Such is the lesson in this frothy, muzzy, comic caper by de Rhodes, a putative child prodigy ("She started writing features for fashion magazines at the age of twelve....") but actually the pseudonym of Dan Rhodes, author of the much-ballyhooed Timoleon Vieta Come Home. After waking with a hangover and the terrible knowledge that she caused Princess Diana's car crash, Veronique realizes that something must be done. So she goes to see her friend Estelle, a gorgeous, pansexual heartbreaker with a fondness for obscure Welsh poetry, confesses and gets drunk. But she can do better than that! Soon a scheme emerges, which involves the gradual disassembly of the car (which the police are looking for) into bits small enough to dump in public trash cans. But where to get the money for a new car? Stealing and selling the ex's stereo didn't net nearly enough—should Veronique get paid for having her toe amputated and sewn back on by a med student? Trials and tribulations abound, but these beauties will triumph in a novel that's as fun and as fast as a little white Porsche.
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- PublisherCanongate U.S.
- Publication date2005
- ISBN 10 1841957216
- ISBN 13 9781841957210
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages272
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