The Painted Lady
by Françoise Sagan
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On a "music cruise" of the Mediterranean Sea, an earnest love affair arises between the most unlikely pair of passengers, and the entire company becomes engaged in its outcome.Tags
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Very well written, and in parts very amusing. Unfortunately, I found no interest in the characters, which were caricatures, or the story, which is merely a comedy of manners between obscenely wealthy cruise vacationers.
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- Canonical title
- The Painted Lady
- Original title
- La femme fardée
- People/Characters
- Clarisse Lethuillier; Éric Lethuillier; Julien Peyrat; Doriacci; Andréas Fayard; Simon Béjart (show all 9); Olga Lamoureux; Edma Bautet-Lebrêche; Armand Bautet-Lebrêche
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- Mediterranean Sea
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- (3.65)
- Languages
- 9 — Danish, Dutch, English, Finnish, French, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish
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- Paper, Ebook
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- 23
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