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Author:

Dupont, Éric, 1970- author.

Title:

The American fiancée : a novel / Eric Dupont ; translated from the French by Peter McCambridge.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

HarperViaan imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

662 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Families--Fiction.
Man-woman relationships--Fiction.
Canada--Fiction.
United States--Fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Domestic fiction.

Other Authors:

McCambridge, Peter, 1979- translator.

Other Titles:

Fiancée américaine. English

Notes:

Originally published as La fiancée américaine in Canada in 2012 by Marchand de feuilles. Originally published in English as Songs for the Cold of Heart in 2018 by QC Fiction, an imprint of Baraka Books. First HarperVia hardcover published in 2020.

Summary:

"Born on Christmas, Louis Lamontagne, the family's patriarch, is a larger-than-life lothario and raconteur who inherits his mother's teal eyes and his father's brutish good looks and whose charms travel beyond Quebec, across the state of New York where he wins at county fairs as a larger-than-life strongman, and even in Europe, where he is deployed for the US Army during World War II. We meet his daughter, Madeleine, who opens a successful chain of diners using the recipes from her grandmother, the original American Fiancée, and vows never to return to her hometown. And we end with her son Gabriel, another ladies' man in the family, who falls in love with a woman he follows to Berlin and discovers unexpected connections there to the Lamontagne family that re-frame the entire course of the events in the book" -- Amazon.com

ISBN:

0062947451
9780062947451

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1139344952

LCCN:

2019030730

Locations:

GBPF771 -- Ankeny Kirkendall Public Library (Ankeny)

SAPG074 -- Cedar Falls Public Library (Cedar Falls)

DBPE173 -- Clear Lake Public Library (Clear Lake)

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)

SDPB094 -- Janesville Public Library (Janesville)

GUPF501 -- Newton Public Library (Newton)

AWPD207 -- Osceola Public Library (Osceola)

GEPG771 -- West Des Moines Public Library (West Des Moines)