The story lines support each other gracefully. But instead of embarking on a flowers-and-baguette romance, Vidalia chooses darker territory: a seductive bad boy pushes her limits, beginning with ditching a restaurant bill on their first date and escalating to art heists. immediately makes an overture, and when the art teacher trains his Gallic scorn on her, another student helps her shrug it off. First-novelist Watson throws Vidalia some easy pitches: the cute young (and good-hearted) Frenchman at Shakespeare & Co. Like house and the burden of tending to her severely anxious, agoraphobic mother, high school student Vidalia is thrilled to be studying painting in Paris. When a summer scholarship frees her from her Grey Gardens–
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |