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St. Martins Press-3Pl My French Whore by Gene Wilder
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.