The first thing you see
By: Gregoire Delacourt ; translated from the French by Anthea Bell
Contributors: Bell, Anthea, translator
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 258
ISBN-13: 9781780226644
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Fiction; Man-woman relationships; Mechanics (Persons); Motion picture actors and actresses; Secrecy
Work titles: Premiere chose qu'on regarde
Description: Arthur Dreyfuss is a young mechanic at a garage in the little community of Long, France. He has a small flat and leads a simple life. So, imagine his surprise when he opens his door one evening to find a distraught Hollywood starlet standing before him. But although feigning an American accent, this woman is not all that she seems. For her name is actually Jeanine Foucamprez - and her story is very different from the glamorous life of a star. Arthur is not all he seems, either; a lover of poetry with a darker past than one might imagine, he has learnt to see beauty in the mundane.
Notes: Originally published in French as "La premiere chose qu'on regarde": Paris : Editions Jean-Claude Lattes, 2013. First published in English: Great Britain : Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2015.

Includes interview with the author, discussion questions, and excerpts from "The list of my desires" and "We only saw happiness".

Translated from the French.