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The Alphonse Courrier Affair

Published
Mar 2012
Main Genre
General Fiction General Fiction
Pages
192

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Alphonse Courrier possesses all the might reasonably make a man content: a prosperous ironmonger's business and a position of respect in his Auvergne village, a dutiful, coolly beautiful wife who runs an irreproachable household, two healthy sons, and a hidden mistress - "the ugliest girl in the village but probably the happiest".

Prying eyes and wagging tongues, however, are the life force in a small community, and though Courrier thinks he can play the village gossips with the same skill he brings to the card table, life has a way of dealing the hand you least expect ...

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Oct 2000 HarperCollins (UK) ISBN 1860465749
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First Edition Mar 2012 Random House ISBN 1448130247
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Mar 2012 Vintage Digital ISBN B0072HDQ96
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