Pierre and jean
(2016)
Nonfiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Dancing Unicorn Books, 2016
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DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9781515413035 (electronic bk.) MWT14315162, 1515413039 (electronic bk.) 14315162
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Pierre and Jean are the sons of Gérme Roland, a jeweler, who has retired to Le Havre, and his wife Louise. Pierre works as a doctor, and Jean is a lawyer. It recounts the story of a middle-class French family whose lives are, changed when Léon Maréchal, a deceased family friend, leaves his inheritance to Jean. This provokes Pierre to doubt the fidelity of his mother and the legitimacy of his brother. In his anguish, most notably shown during family meals, he tortures her with allusions to the past that he has now uncovered
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