Visa to France, A Frivolous Novel of the French Seaside
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Fleming, Berry. Visa to France, A Frivolous Novel of the French Seaside. First Edition. 1930. Book and dust jacket are both in very good condition—jacket shows a few tiny chips.
Set in the then-fashionable Les Planches-sur-Mer, the protagonist is an American expatriate writer who attempts to begin writing a novel, even though he believes fiction to be exceedingly overrated. His is a glamorous procrastination in which he interacts with international society, “where mountains are molehills and molehills mountains.” The plot is a comedy of manners in which Americans, Italians, the French, and the English are mostly incomprehensible to each other, but not to the author of this book, who brilliantly mocks them all.
“Novelists could not even talk among themselves with pleasure, knowing that if they said anything worth listening to, it would soon appear in the pages of somebody else’s book.”
--Berry Fleming
Set in the then-fashionable Les Planches-sur-Mer, the protagonist is an American expatriate writer who attempts to begin writing a novel, even though he believes fiction to be exceedingly overrated. His is a glamorous procrastination in which he interacts with international society, “where mountains are molehills and molehills mountains.” The plot is a comedy of manners in which Americans, Italians, the French, and the English are mostly incomprehensible to each other, but not to the author of this book, who brilliantly mocks them all.
“Novelists could not even talk among themselves with pleasure, knowing that if they said anything worth listening to, it would soon appear in the pages of somebody else’s book.”
--Berry Fleming
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