Romantic Fiction Themes, Other Romance Categories, Literary Styles & Movements - Fiction, Historical Fiction
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Overview
Pierre and Jean are the sons of Gérôme Roland, a jeweller 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 uncoveredBook Details
Published
April 26, 2012
Publisher
Wilder Publications
Pages
114
Format
Paperback
ISBN
9781617207266