The Pleasing Hour

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"[An] impressive debut from a writer who knows how to uncover the saving impulses of the heart."
—Lisa Shea, Elle
"Delightful. . . . This remarkably well-written book will please you with its funny and sad tale of cultural differences, love, betrayal, and motherhood. . . . Introduces a very talented writer of great promise."
—Lelia Ruckenstein, The Washington Post
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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... Tovább

Fülszöveg

fiction
"[An] impressive debut from a writer who knows how to uncover the saving impulses of the heart."
—Lisa Shea, Elle
"Delightful. . . . This remarkably well-written book will please you with its funny and sad tale of cultural differences, love, betrayal, and motherhood. . . . Introduces a very talented writer of great promise."
—Lelia Ruckenstein, The Washington Post
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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.
"Beautifully wrought . . . what people do to each other and the legacies they leave are King's central subjects, and in her deft hands they're explored in complicated, ambitious ways that leave us feeling as if we've become fluent in a foreign language "
—Karen Shepard, USA Today
Lily King studied at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Syracuse University, where she won the Raymond Carver Prize for fiction. A MacDowell Colony fellow, her stories have appeared in Ploughshares and Glimmer Train. She lives with her husband and daughter in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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