

The Mistress
Author: Philippe Tapon
Narrator: Roe Kendall
Unabridged: 5 hr 38 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 07/10/2009
Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction
Author: Philippe Tapon
Narrator: Roe Kendall
Unabridged: 5 hr 38 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Audio, Inc.
Published: 07/10/2009
Categories: Fiction, Historical Fiction
Philippe Tapon is a native Californian who has lived in Paris, Madrid, and London. He lives in San Francisco, California, and is the author of A Parisian from Kansas.
The Mistress is not so much a story of war as of the drive to survive, made sharper by forced deprivation. There is no romance here, no love, no sacrifice, no heroics. It compels the reader to consider whether these people and their actions are deviant or typical, to wonder how the self would react......more
This book is partially based on my family. It's written by my brother.......more
while it starts with a higher vocabulary than I'm used to, I soon found it to be more a compliment than a hindrance. The book started slow and began to confuse me, but as you get past the first 20 pages, things begin to make since. I found it more and more interesting to discover more about Emile an......more