The Dream Lover (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: William Boyd
- First Published: 1993
- Type of Plot: Psychological
- Time of Work: The 1960's
- Setting: Nice, France
- Principal Characters: Edward, Preston, Lois, Annique Cambrai, Ingrid, Danni
- Genres: Short fiction
- Subjects: 1960’s, United States or Americans, Traveling or travelers, France or French people, Love or romance, Twentieth century, Exile or expatriates, Class consciousness, Poverty or poor people, Jealousy, envy, or resentment, England or English people, Upper classes, Wealth, Western Europe or western Europeans, Morality or morals, Students or student life, Dating
- Locales: Nice, France
The Story
Lonely and temporarily out of ready cash because of a postal strike in England, Edward, a young Englishman studying French culture at the Centre Universitaire Nice, strikes up a friendship with Preston, an American student who seems to have a lot of money, never goes to class, and repeatedly asks Edward to introduce him to a French girl. Edward, the obliging but shy English student, promises to fix him up and eventually brings several girls from his classes to Preston's very modern studio apartment in the Résidence Les Anges, a posh place that stands in stark...
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