Except that this book is set in Paris, and the author is seriously French, so it’s really about money - what it can and cannot buy. The strength of her virtue finally shines through, and she loses weight, gets highlights in her hair, earns enough money to justly be called rich, and ends up with a darling boyfriend, while her ex-husband dies an ignominious death. “ The Yellow Eyes of Crocodiles,” which has been a runaway bestseller in France and translated into more than two dozen languages, seems at first to follow a traditional women’s-novel formula: A drab middle-aged housewife is deserted by her caddish husband, roundly tormented by her bratty adolescent daughter and forced to pinch pennies and take odd jobs.
Translated from the French by William Rodarmor and Helen Dickinson
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