{"product_id":"9781416584735","title":"Fleur de Leigh in Exile: A Novel","description":"Diane 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\u003cbr\u003e\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\u003cbr\u003eAfter 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\u003cbr\u003eDiane 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":"Simon \u0026 Schuster","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47152540254448,"sku":"9781416584735","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781416584735_p0.jpg?v=1763728084","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781416584735","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}