{"product_id":"the-american-fiancee-paperback","title":"The American Fiancée - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eEric DuPont\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn this extraordinary breakout novel--a rich, devastatingly humorous epic of one unforgettable family--award-winning author Eric Dupont illuminates the magic of stories, the bonds of family, and the twists of fate and fortune to transform our lives.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOver the course of the twentieth century, three generations of the Lamontagnes will weather love, passion, jealousy, revenge, and death. Their complicated family dynamic--as dramatic as Puccini's legendary opera, \u003cem\u003eTosca\u003c\/em\u003e--will propel their rise, and fall, and take them around the world . . . until they finally confront the secrets of their complicated pasts. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBorn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn unholy marriage of John Irving and Gary Shteyngart with the irresistible whimsy of Elizabeth McCracken, \u003cem\u003eThe American Fiancée\u003c\/em\u003e is a big, bold, wildly ambitious novel that introduces a dynamic new voice to contemporary literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eTranslated from the French by Peter McCambridge. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 672\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 1.3 x 7.9 x 5.3 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 16, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47265986445561,"sku":"9780062971203","price":16.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/FFYH3ahAIm9780062971203.webp?v=1768847306","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/the-american-fiancee-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}