Used book – L'étudiant étranger, Philippe Labro

Invited by a prestigious university in Virginia, a young Frenchman marvels at the golden life of college boys, their sports teams, their campus in a paradisiacal valley. This is the era of a more conservative America, before the explosion of mores and the tumult of the sixties. Very quickly, the young man realizes he remains an "exchange student." He will cross lines, transgress taboos, without even realizing it: first by making love with a young black schoolteacher, April. Then by falling in love with a Boston heiress, Elisabeth, a whimsical and corrosive character... In a clear and sincere tone, this coming-of-age story revives, with humor and nostalgia, the fragile days of adolescence, when "everything was a first." Winner of the Prix Interallié in 1986, L'étudiant étranger, after great success in bookstores, was adapted for cinema by Eva Sereny, starring Robin Givens and Marco Hofschneider.