The First Thing You See, Gregoire Delacourt
The First Thing You See, Gregoire Delacourt
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The First Thing You See

Author: Gregoire Delacourt

Narrator: David Thorpe

Unabridged: 5 hr 10 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/10/2015


Synopsis

Imagine you are a young mechanic living in a small community in France. You own your own home, and lead a simple life. Then one evening, you open your front door to find a distraught Hollywood starlet standing in front of. This is what happens to Arthur Drefuss in the village of Long, population 687 inhabitants.

But although feigning an American accent, this woman is not all that she seems. For her name is Jeanine Foucamprez, and her story is very different from the glamorous life of a star. Arthur is not all he seems, either; a lover of poetry with a darker past than one might imagine, he has learnt to see beauty in the mundane.

THE FIRST THING YOU SEE is a warm, witty novel about two fragile souls learning to look beyond the surface - for the first thing you see isn't always what you get!
Read by David Thorpe

(p) 2015 Orion Publishing Group

About Gregoire Delacourt

Grégoire Delacourt is the bestselling author of eight novels and has won several literary awards. His novel THE LIST OF MY DESIRES was a runaway number-one international bestseller. Grégoire lives with his wife in Brooklyn, New York.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Manny

I would never have heard of this book if Scarlett Johansson hadn't recently sued the author, but, having noticed an article in The Independent, I became curious. Why, exactly, had Ms Johansson become so angry? From the author's description, it didn't seem reasonable; but there are usually two sides......more

Goodreads review by G.R.

The best novel ever written about Scarlett Johansson's tits.......more

Едно момче среща, разбира се, невероятно момиче…: [URL not allowed]-review/k... Въпросът за идентичността е централен в книгата. В свят, който е обсебен да създава и да се прекланя пред икони, често доработени със софтуер и грим до степен да загубят връзка с реалността, истинските стойност......more


Quotes

It's a powerful message which begins with the novel's title - a meditation on our obsession with beauty, celebrity and the consequences for those lumbered with one or both, delivered in a deceptively simple package stuffed full of filmic references and peppered with poetic quotations. It's a little gem and it's been a long time in the offing in translation. A Life In Books

This smart romantic comedy is charmingly Gallic and cries out to be filmed as a sentimental comedy. SUNDAY TIMES

At once tender and harrowing, light-hearted and profound, it is a highly original and affecting read. THE LADY