Courtship in Purgatory - Couverture souple

Perreault, Robert B

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1963714075 ISBN 13 : 9781963714074

Editeur : Peter E. Randall Publisher, 2025

Synopsis

Set in the conservative French-speaking community of Sagamore Falls, a fictional New Hampshire mill town, Courtship in Purgatory portrays parental control over middle-aged offspring in an upper-middle-class family. When protagonist Victoria discovers a disturbing entry in her deceased father's journal, she relives a painful episode dating back a quarter-century, from which she had healed. At 33, Victoria lived a sheltered existence with her parents. Although she adored them, especially her father--she worshipped the water he walked on--she hoped to marry Lucien, whose working-class status did not measure up to her parents' standards. Consequently, her father separated the lovers via a secret plot that threatened to smear Lucien's image in Victoria's eyes. Caught between the two men she loved, she wondered: Should she follow her conscience by obeying her father? Or should she follow her heart without knowing if Lucien was the morally upstanding man he appeared to be?

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Robert B. Perreault is a bilingual writer of mostly nonfiction books and articles about the New England Franco-American experience and/or the history of his hometown, Manchester, New Hampshire. He holds a BA in Sociology from Saint Anselm College (1972), including a year of study in Paris; an MA in French/New England Franco-American Studies from Rhode Island College (1981); and an MFA in Creative Writing (Fiction/Nonfiction) from Southern New Hampshire University (2008). His writings in French, English, or both languages include seven books and more than 175 articles published in the US, French Canada or France. He is the author of a French-language novel, L'Héritage (1983), whose setting is Manchester's Franco-American community; also Postcard History Series: Manchester (2005); Franco-American Life and Culture in Manchester, New Hampshire: Vivre la Différence (2010); and Images of Modern America: Manchester, featuring his original photos of the city from 1971 to 2005 (2017). Since 1988, he has conducted conversational French sessions in the Native Speaker Program at Saint Anselm College. The Manchester Historic Association honored him with a Historic Preservation Award (1994) and Manchester's Franco-American Centre proclaimed him Franco-American of the Year (2012). Courtship in Purgatory is his first novel in English.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Peter E. Randall Publisher
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1963714075
• ISBN 13: 9781963714074
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 262
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• Personne responsable: non disponible