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Hedges: Tales Of Southwestern France

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The barriers that formerly isolated and protected a village in southwestern France begin to fall and other, sometimes more sinister ones rise to take their place. Outsiders—foreigners, gypsies, homosexuals, atheists, communists—can no longer be excluded or ignored. Twenty-two interconnected stories show how the villagers cope with a world that is increasingly beyond their control:

1. Hedges: Cutting down a hedge raises an even more insurmountable barrier
2. Spring: A woman cyclist in black spandex upsets an ancient village enmity
3. The Schoolmaster's Story: A flood proves to be the moral equivalent of war
4. Land: A farmer loses, then regains family land
5. Masonry: An old mason decides to build his own tomb
6. Madame Pacelli: A wife confronts her husband's mistress
7. Steeple: The village church's steeple collapses--whose fault is it?
8. Monsieur Marty: An atheistic communist who lives in the presbytery shoots an intruder
9. Legacy: Marcel Fabre's father hid his money--but where?
10. Albert: The village idiot is caught mounting a dog
11. Crossing the Tarn: Friendship and romance during the Occupation
12. Gypsies: A family of gypsies has a car accident, but are they thieves?
13. The Chatelaine: A love affair between an aristocrat and a farmer's son during WW II
14. Skull: When a skull is stolen from the cemetery, the theft has to be concealed
15. The Eye of the Village: A gay man in the village closet
16. The Frog War: French-British détente is derailed by anurans
17. The Great Fear: A peasant saves the baron during the Great Fear of 1789
18. Giovios: An internet search turns up a con man
19. Lluisa: A Spanish refugee family's struggle for survival
20. On the Road: A man waits for his wife to come home
21. A Way of Life: Small farmers face a grim future
22. The Bridge: A new bridge will transform the village but leave old enmities intact

Language: English

Format: Kindle Edition

Hedges: Tales Of Southwestern France

0/5 ( ratings)

The barriers that formerly isolated and protected a village in southwestern France begin to fall and other, sometimes more sinister ones rise to take their place. Outsiders—foreigners, gypsies, homosexuals, atheists, communists—can no longer be excluded or ignored. Twenty-two interconnected stories show how the villagers cope with a world that is increasingly beyond their control:

1. Hedges: Cutting down a hedge raises an even more insurmountable barrier
2. Spring: A woman cyclist in black spandex upsets an ancient village enmity
3. The Schoolmaster's Story: A flood proves to be the moral equivalent of war
4. Land: A farmer loses, then regains family land
5. Masonry: An old mason decides to build his own tomb
6. Madame Pacelli: A wife confronts her husband's mistress
7. Steeple: The village church's steeple collapses--whose fault is it?
8. Monsieur Marty: An atheistic communist who lives in the presbytery shoots an intruder
9. Legacy: Marcel Fabre's father hid his money--but where?
10. Albert: The village idiot is caught mounting a dog
11. Crossing the Tarn: Friendship and romance during the Occupation
12. Gypsies: A family of gypsies has a car accident, but are they thieves?
13. The Chatelaine: A love affair between an aristocrat and a farmer's son during WW II
14. Skull: When a skull is stolen from the cemetery, the theft has to be concealed
15. The Eye of the Village: A gay man in the village closet
16. The Frog War: French-British détente is derailed by anurans
17. The Great Fear: A peasant saves the baron during the Great Fear of 1789
18. Giovios: An internet search turns up a con man
19. Lluisa: A Spanish refugee family's struggle for survival
20. On the Road: A man waits for his wife to come home
21. A Way of Life: Small farmers face a grim future
22. The Bridge: A new bridge will transform the village but leave old enmities intact

Language: English

Format: Kindle Edition

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