France Virtual Book Tours: a promotional tool to connect authors with bloggers with a passion for France
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The Song Peddler of the Pont Neuf:
read, gently used condition
Smoking Kills:
ARC, in excellent condition
The Crypt Thief:
ARC, back cover slightly bent
Enter the giveaway here
Giveaway Tools will draw 1 winner on May 1st
on Tour
May 15-28
with
(fiction)
Release date: June 4, 2019
at New Vessel Press
157 pages
ISBN: 978-1939931672
A French teacher on the verge of retirement is invited to a glittering opening that showcases the artwork of his former student, who has since become a celebrated painter. This unexpected encounter leads to the older man posing for his portrait. Possibly in the nude. Such personal exposure at close range entails a strange and troubling pact between artist and sitter that prompts both to reevaluate their lives.
Blondel, author of the hugely popular novel The 6:41 to Paris, evokes an intimacy of dangerous intensity in a tale marked by profound nostalgia and a reckoning with the past that allows its two characters to move ahead into the future. [provided by the publisher]
NB: this is NOT erotica!
“Exposed deals with the joys and uncertainties of youth, as well as aging and regret, thwarted friendships and loves, and nostalgia and searching for renewal. It’s beautifully written and sensitively translated from French, highly engaging and accessible to a wide array of readers. It contains no explicit sex or anything that would put off a reader open to the experience of good literature.”
“Blondel writes superbly.”
Le Monde
Jean-Philippe Blondel
was born in 1964 in Troyes, France
where he lives as an author and English teacher.
His novel The 6:41 to Paris has been acclaimed
in both the United States and Europe.
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Wednesday, May 15
Bilingual Review + Giveaway at Mangeuse de livres
Friday, May 17
Review + Giveaway at Readerbuzz
Monday, May 20
Review + Giveaway at Hall Ways Blog
Wednesday, May 22
Review + Excerpt + Giveaway at Locks, Hooks and Books
Thursday, May 23
Review + Giveaway at Musings of a Writer & Unabashed Francophile
Friday, May 24
Review + Excerpt + Giveaway at Book Dilettante
Monday, May 27
Review at Svetlana’s Reads and Views
Tuesday, May 28
Review + Giveaway at Words And Peace
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May 2, 2019
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