Yvette in America
Subtitle: a sequential novel
By: John Goulet.
Series: Series in contemporary fiction
Publisher: Center for Literary Pub. & University Press of Colorado
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Ft. Collins, Colo
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
Subjects: French -- United States -- Fiction.; World War, 1939-1945 -- France -- Fiction.; Women travelers -- Fiction.; Women -- France -- Fiction.; United States -- Description and travel -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "Yvette Pleven, the protagonist of John Goulet's new novel is a kind of whacked-out contemporary Tocqueville in search of a new world who finds only paradox in her search for happiness and freedom. The six connected episodes in Yvette in America carry Yvette across the United States, from Boston to Colorado and California and finally to Milwaukee, in the often cold heart of her adopted country.

By turns outrageous, funny, poignant, and sad, Yvette in America charts the spiritual journey of thousands who came to America expecting the promised land and found instead hustlers, con-men, and worse, eager to make profits from their dreams. Yet in the end Yvette not only makes peace but triumphs in a small way, which may be the only way one ever triumphs at all."--BOOK JACKET.