Jan 3, 2010
One late spring afternoon, Carol Frazier, the twenty-two-year-old protagonist, is concluding a visit with an acquaintance, Odile Pontmoret, to a Parisian dressmaker, Madame Germain, who is making Carol's wedding gown. Odile disapproves of the traditional, “unoriginal” gown that Carol chooses. Moreover, to Carol's annoyance, Odile blabs to the dressmaker that Carol fell in love at first sight with her fiancé, Howard Mitchell, an economist, who, with Carol and Odile, works in a U.S. government agency in Paris. Odile is aware that Carol, perceiving Paris to be the...
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