The Pleasing Hour

ISBN: 9780743201643

出版社: Simon & Schuster

出版年: 2000-10

页数: 237

定价: 35.00元

装帧: Pap

内容简介

The first novel from a new literary voice brimming with sensitivity and lyricism, "The Pleasing Hour" is the story of an American in Europe whose coming-of-age defies all our usual conceptions of naivete and experience. Fleeing a devastating loss, Rosie takes a job as an au pair with a Parisian family and soon finds the comfort and intimacy she longs for with their children and the father, Marc. Only Nicole, the children's distant, impeccably polished mother, is unwilling to embrace the young American. But when Rosie realizes that her attachments have become transgressions, she leaves for the south of France. There she learns about Nicole's own haunted past and the losses that link the two women more closely than either could have imagined.