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Dreaming in French
Alice Kaplan
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Description for Dreaming in French
Paperback. Jacqueline Bouvier was a twenty-year-old debutante from a wealthy East Coast family. Susan Sontag was twenty-four, a precocious Jewish intellectual from a family of modest means. Angela Davis, a French major at Brandeis from a prominent African American family in Birmingham, Alabama, found herself the only black student in her year abroad program. Num Pages: 300 pages, 27 halftones. BIC Classification: 1DDF; BK; WTM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 224 x 145 x 19. Weight in Grams: 416.
"A year in Paris"...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, yet their backgrounds and their dreams couldn't have been more different. Jacqueline Bouvier was a twenty-year-old debutante from a wealthy East Coast family. Susan Sontag was twenty-four, a precocious Jewish intellectual from a family of modest means. Angela ... Read more
"A year in Paris"...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, yet their backgrounds and their dreams couldn't have been more different. Jacqueline Bouvier was a twenty-year-old debutante from a wealthy East Coast family. Susan Sontag was twenty-four, a precocious Jewish intellectual from a family of modest means. Angela ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press United States
Number of pages
300
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780226054872
SKU
V9780226054872
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About Alice Kaplan
Alice Kaplan is the author of French Lessons: A Memoir; The Collaborator: The Trial and Execution of Robert Brasillach, which was a finalist for the National Book Award; and The Interpreter.
Reviews for Dreaming in French
"Alice Kaplan's superbly perceptive Dreaming in French makes a prism out of those visits; the white light of expectation goes in, and a myriad of astonishing colors comes out." (Laura Miller, Salon) "Alice Kaplan achieves the improbable in her new book Dreaming in French, which weaves together a fascinating triple-portrait of three different and unrelated characters." (San Francisco Chronicle)"