That Paris year
By: Joanna Biggar
Publisher: Alan Squire Pub.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Bethesda, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 469
ISBN-13: 9780982625170; 9780982625156; 9780982625101
Subjects: Young women; Fiction; Jeunes femmes; Romans, nouvelles
Description: In That Paris Year, five smart, adventurous young women arrive on the banks of the Seine in 1962 for their junior year abroad. What they get is an education of a different sort. As they move from the grueling demands of the Sorbonne by day to late nights of discovery in smoky cafes, the young Americans discover a mythical country shaped not only by the upheavals of history, but by the great French writers of the 20th Century, a place where seduction is intellectual as well as sexual. Ten years later, our narrator, J.J., is asked to speak at her old college on the virtues of going abroad. Draw.
Table of contents: title: Cover; Copyright; Contents; Prologue; Part 1. Children of the Fire; Part 2. The Passage; Part 3. Lessons and Yellowing Trees; Part 4. Frozen River, Coldest Nights; Part 5. Shifting Light, Dancing Leaves; Part 6. Full Sun; Epilogue.