{"product_id":"9780743226097","title":"Fleur de Leigh in Exile","description":"Author: Diane Leslie\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9780743226097\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Simon \u0026amp; Schuster\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 14 May 2004\u003cbr\u003ePages: 320\u003cbr\u003eFormat: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDiane Leslie's first novel, \u003ci\u003eFleur de Leigh's Life of Crime,\u003c\/i\u003e chronicled young Fleur Leigh's glamorous misadventures in 1950s Hollywood. \u003ci\u003e\"Très charmant\u003c\/i\u003e indeed,\" \u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e praised this \u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e Best Book of 1999. \u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eFleur de Leigh in Exile\u003c\/i\u003e finds fifteen-year-old Fleur in diminished circumstances. She transferred mid-semester to Tucson's Rancho Cambridge West -- the cheapest boarding school in all the United States -- where frail students convalesce in the arid clime and dine on the mess hall's \"adobe melt.\" \"Think of yourself as a conquistador,\" her B-movie actress mother urges, but Fleur's eyes are widened to the evils of prejudice and the burdens of combating it. \u003cbr\u003e\n\n After a night of dorm-room high jinks, Fleur and friends band together as the \"Four-Letter Four.\" Sentenced to a civic-minded punishment deep in the desert, the \"doomed do-gooders\" encounter a grave situation far removed from Fleur's upper-class upbringing. Serious issues abound, but in Diane Leslie's world even the most painful moments are tinged with comedy. \u003cbr\u003e\n\n Diane Leslie's writing is \"enchanting, believable, and wickedly funny\" \u003ci\u003e(Denver Post).\u003c\/i\u003e Witty and fresh, \u003ci\u003eFleur de Leigh in Exile\u003c\/i\u003e pits Heartland against Hollywood in a tale whose courageous heroine is as endearing in exile as ever before.","brand":"Print on demand - Ships in 1 to 3 months","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46915331227806,"sku":"HPC-9780743226097","price":29.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9780743226097.jpg?v=1780036759","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9780743226097","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}