Dreaming in French
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2013
Language: eng
Number of pages: 300
ISBN-13: 9780226054872
Subjects: Onassis, jacqueline kennedy, 1929-1994; Sontag, susan, 1933-2004; Davis, angela y. (angela yvonne), 1944-; Women, united states, biography; Students, foreign; Paris (france), biography; United states, civilization
Description: A year in Paris...Since World War II, countless American students have been lured by that vision - and been transformed by their sojourn in the City of Light. "Dreaming in French" tells three stories of that experience, and how it changed the lives of three extraordinary American women. All three women would go on to become icons, key figures in American cultural, intellectual, and political life, but when they embarked for France, they were young, little known, uncertain about their future, and drawn to the culture, sophistication, and drama that only Paris could offer. Kaplan, whose own junior year abroad played a prominent role in her classic memoir, French Lessons, spins these three quite different stories into one evocative biography, brimming with the ferment and yearnings of youth and shot through with the knowledge of how a single year-and a magical city-can change a whole life.