The Alphonse Courrier Affair
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 ...
- Author
- Marta Morazzoni
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 176
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9781860469442
- Genres
- fiction, france
- Release date
- 2001
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