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An edition of The way I found her (1997)

The way I found her

1st American ed.
  • 2 Want to read

Lewis Little is a thirteen-year-old boy spending the summer in Paris with his mother, Alice, who is translating the latest medieval romance by Valentina Gavrilovich, the best-selling novelist and exotic Russian emigree. But from the moment Valentina, golden-skinned and exquisitely scented, beckons from a spindly sofa, Lewis floats on a ribbon of Russian cigarette smoke into a delicious new world of passion and intrigue.

At first, the mysteries are of the charming, everyday sort: the origins of saffron sauce, the tastes and names of lipstick. Lewis discusses philosophy with Didier, the existentialist roofer, eats cakes with Valentina's mother, drinks Orangina with Babba, Valentina's maid from Benin, and takes long walks with Valentina's aristocratic dog, Sergei. Most of all, he dreams of Valentina: her delicious laugh, her intoxicating perfume, her silk negligees.

But when Valentina mysteriously disappears and Lewis takes it upon himself to find her, glorious secrets turn ominous.

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Language
English
Pages
358

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Cover of: The way I found her
The way I found her
1998, Vintage
in English
Cover of: The way I found her
The way I found her
1998, Beeler Large Print
in English
Cover of: The way I found her
The way I found her
1998, Farrar, Straus, and Giroux
in English - 1st American ed.
Cover of: The way I found her
The way I found her
1997, Sinclair-Stevenson
in English

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New York

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
823/.914
Library of Congress
PR6070.R364 W38 1998, PR6070.R364W38 1998

The Physical Object

Pagination
358 p. ;
Number of pages
358

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL685786M
Internet Archive
wayifoundher00trem
ISBN 10
0374286663
LCCN
97032676
OCLC/WorldCat
37890345
Library Thing
171292
Goodreads
1585484

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